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. 2019 Jun 4;44(11):1940–1947. doi: 10.1038/s41386-019-0428-2

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
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)