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. 2009 Sep 23;29(38):11772–11782. doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1242-09.2009

Table 4.

Results from regression analyses with TBV-corrected volumes

Regression with age
Regression with age and age2
β F p R2 F p R2 p age2a
Cortex volume −0.83 384.98 1.98E-45 0.70 276.27 7.64E-54 0.77 1.94E-11
Cerebral WM 0.82 356.03 1.87E-43 0.68 230.68 6.59E-49 0.73 2.15E-8
Hippocampus 0.24 9.85 0.002 0.06 7.62 6.81E-4 0.08 0.025
Amygdala 0.34 21.64 6.62E-6 0.11 14.18 2.05E-6 0.14 0.015
Caudate −0.20 6.74 0.010 0.04 4.26 0.016 0.05 0.188
Putamen −0.41 34.55 2.16E-8 0.17 17.23 1.56E-7 0.17 0.754
Pallidum −0.33 20.03 1.40E-5 0.11 10.00 7.87E-5 0.11 0.773
Accumbens −0.31 17.44 4.75E-5 0.09 10.20 6.60E-5 0.11 0.097
Thalamus 0.10 1.83 0.177 0.01 0.91 0.403 0.01 0.963
Cerebellum GM −0.27 13.03 4.04E-4 0.07 7.73 0.001 0.08 0.13
Cerebellum WM 0.45 41.66 1.10E-9 0.20 29.86 8.03E-12 0.26 1.79E-4
Brainstem 0.55 72.68 8.21E-15 0.30 45.43 1.70E-16 0.35 4.09E-4
Lateral ventricle 0.38 28.09 3.58E-7 0.14 14.42 1.67E-6 0.15 0.379
Inferior lateral ventricle −0.07 0.82 0.367 0.01 0.410 0.664 0.01 0.936
Third ventricle 0.14 3.31 0.071 0.02 3.33 0.038 0.04 0.070
Fourth ventricle 0.02 0.07 0.796 3.96E-4 0.07 0.934 0.001 0.793

Results shown are from two separate regression analyses with TBV-corrected volumes, one with only age as the predictor variable and the other with both age and age2 as predictor variables. Bold characters for R2 indicate a statistically significant quadratic age relationship.

aThe p value for the unique contribution of age2 to the explained variance in brain volume.