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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Sep 6.
Published in final edited form as: J Alzheimers Dis. 2018;65(1):79–88. doi: 10.3233/JAD-171152

Table 2.

Mean group 2-(1- 6-[(2-[F-18]fluoroethyl) (methyl)amino]-2-naphthyl ethylidene)malononitrile relative distribution volumes (standard deviation values given in parentheses) and comparisons between groups

Amygd Midb HypoTh Thal Pons Str MTL LTL F p ACG PCG O
Military Personnel 1.30 1.26 1.32 1.37 1.27 1.33 1.14 1.11 1.12 1.08 1.17 1.13 1.03
n = 7 (0.09) (0.14) (0.13) (0.14) (0.14) (0.10) (0.09) (0.07) (0.05) (0.05) (0.07) (0.06) (0.03)
Players 1.39 1.34 1.42 1.51 1.31 1.53 1.18 1.12 1.14 1.09 1.22 1.16 1.00
n = 15 (0.10) (0.07) (0.08) (0.10) (0.07) (0.10) (0.04) (0.05) (0.05) (0.05) (0.07) (0.08) (0.05)
Alzheimer’s disease 1.24 1.15 1.23 1.32 1.16 1.35 1.19 1.16 1.11 1.15 1.14 1.18 1.06
n = 24 (0.06) (0.06) (0.06) (0.11) (0.06) (0.09) (0.02) (0.02) (0.03) (0.03) (0.07) (0.02) (0.06)
Cognitively Intact 1.16 1.14 1.23 1.25 1.15 1.32 1.11 1.06 1.04 1.05 1.09 1.08 1.02
n = 28 (0.04) (0.05) (0.05) (0.09) (0.08) (0.07) (0.02) (0.03) (0.03) (0.03) (0.04) (0.04) (0.05)
Nonparametric ANCOVA* 36.25 26.51 16.42 19.2 20.13 21.35 28 29.34 43.97 23.88 16.54 25.71 4.39
Tukey-Kramer adjusted pairwise Mestp-values
Players versus Military 0.02 0.5 0.1 0.2 0.8 0.003 0.07 0.9 0.8 0.9 0.6 0.9 0.4
Cognitively intact versus Military 0.001 0.0003 0.1 0.01 0.0007 0.5 0.3 0.07 O.0001 0.2 0.004 0.007 0.9
Alzheimer’s disease versus Military 0.9 0.0008 0.1 0.3 0.002 0.5 0.02 0.02 0.7 0.02 0.3 0.4 0.8
Cognitively intact versus Players <0.0001 <0.0001 <0.0001 <0.0001 <0.0001 <0.0001 <0.0001 <0.0001 <0.0001 0.6 <0.0001 <0.0001 0.5

Amygd, amygdala; Midb, midbrain; HypoTh, hypothalamus; Thal, Thalamus; Str, striatum (caudate nucleus and putamen); MTL, medial temporal lobe; LTL, lateral temporal lobe; F, frontal; P, parietal; PCG, posterior cingulate gyrus; ACG, anterior cingulate gyrus; O, occipital.

*

F(3,69) statistics; all p-values<0.0001 except for O (p = 0.007), controlling for age