Table 2.
Brain topological metrics showing differences among never-treated long-term schizophrenia patients, antipsychotic-treated patients of similar illness duration, and healthy controls
Post-hoc LSD | |||||||
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Never-treated Sch. | Antipsychotic-treated Sch. | Controls | ANOVA | Controls versus never-treated Sch. | Controls versus antipsychotic-treated Sch. | Never-treated Sch. versus treated Sch. | |
Measurements | Mean ± SD | Mean ± SD | Mean ± SD | p (f) value | p (d) value | p (d) value | p (d) value |
Global | |||||||
Lnet | 0.494 ± 0.025 | 0.476 ± 0.027 | 0.468 ± 0.020 | 0.003* (0.397) | 0.001* (1.148) | 0.302 | 0.013* (0.692) |
Eglobal | 0.040 ± 0.002 | 0.041 ± 0.002 | 0.042 ± 0.002 | 0.008* (0.364) | 0.002* (1.000) | 0.257 | 0.035* (0.500) |
Nodal efficiency | |||||||
R putamen/caudate | 0.035 ± 0.003 | 0.038 ± 0.004 | 0.041 ± 0.006 | <0.001# (0.473) | <0.001* (1.265) | 0.051 | 0.011* (0.849) |
L putamen/caudate | 0.035 ± 0.003 | 0.039 ± 0.003 | 0.040 ± 0.005 | <0.001# (0.469) | <0.001* (1.213) | 0.185 | 0.003** (1.333) |
R amygdala/hippocampus | 0.036 ± 0.004 | 0.041 ± 0.004 | 0.042 ± 0.006 | <0.001# (0.463) | <0.001* (1.177) | 0.319 | 0.001** (1.250) |
L pre-/postcentral gyri | 0.036 ± 0.005 | 0.038 ± 0.006 | 0.043 ± 0.005 | <0.001# (0.476) | <0.001* (1.400) | 0.004* (0.905) | 0.127 |
Lnet characteristic shortest path length, Eglobal global network efficiency, Sch. schizophrenia patients, ANOVA analysis of variance, LSD least significance difference, SD standard deviation, d Cohen’s d, f Cohen’s f, L left, R right
*Significant difference of topological metrics between groups at p < 0.05
**Significant difference of topological metrics between groups at p < 0.05 after correcting for Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale total score
#Significant difference of topological metrics between groups at p < 0.05 after Bonferroni correction (n = 90)