Table 2.
Main differences for group comparisons and covariance analyses done at baseline between healthy controls (HC) and Parkinson’s disease patients (PD).
Analysis | Region | Coordinates (mm) |
T-value | Cluster size | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
x | y | z | ||||
FA maps: PD > HC | Left pontine tegmentum | −8 | −21 | −21 | 4.7 | 163 |
Right pontine tegmentum | 9 | −22 | −22 | 4.5 | 167 | |
MD maps: PD > HC | Right operculum | 58 | 9 | −2 | 5 | 1571 |
Covariance DAT-MD: PD > HC | Pons nuclei | 4 | −26 | −28 | 4 | 884 |
Covariance DAT-GM volume: PD > HC | Left prefrontal cortex | −44 | 20 | 34 | 4.6 | 681 |
Left premotor cortex | −8 | 6 | 39 | 4.5 | 607 | |
Left insula | −54 | −14 | 16 | 4 | 625 | |
Right insula | 58 | −12 | 14 | 4 | 686 |