Table 4:
Spearman rank correlation coefficients for neuropsychological results and FA values
| Region | MMSE Score | Digit Span |
Verbal Fluency |
||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Forward | Backward | Animals | Vegetables | ||
| Corpus callosum, genu | 0.462 | −0.192 | 0.272 | −0.099 | 0.327 |
| Corpus callosum, splenium | 0.291 | −0.136 | 0.577* | −0.164 | 0.112 |
| Anterior limb internal capsule, L | 0.482 | −0.199 | 0.250 | −0.044 | 0.234 |
| Anterior limb internal capsule, R | 0.501 | 0.031 | 0.384 | −0.011 | 0.223 |
| Posterior limb internal capsule, L | 0.407 | −0.343 | 0.046 | −0.060 | 0.348 |
| Posterior limb internal capsule, R | 0.532 | −0.269 | 0.295 | 0.135 | 0.201 |
| Orbitofrontal, L | 0.755* | −0.009 | 0.669* | −0.186 | 0.410 |
| Orbitofrontal, R | 0.683* | −0.027 | 0.675* | −0.156 | 0.323 |
| High frontal, L | −0.035 | −0.410 | 0.265 | 0.102 | 0.147 |
| High frontal, R | −0.077 | −0.476 | 0.198 | 0.082 | 0.235 |
| Parietal, L | 0.470 | −0.058 | 0.697* | −0.033 | 0.211 |
| Parietal, R | 0.402 | −0.175 | 0.588* | −0.153 | 0.273 |
| Occipital, L | 0.257 | 0.120 | 0.480 | −0.185 | 0.069 |
| Occipital, R | 0.448 | 0.040 | 0.484 | −0.022 | 0.301 |
| Temporal, L | 0.393 | −0.289 | 0.543* | −0.229 | −0.009 |
| Temporal, R | 0.172 | −0.335 | 0.598* | −0.290 | −0.022 |
| All WM areas | 0.631* | −0.179 | 0.795* | −0.079 | 0.453 |
Note:—MMSE indicates Mini-Mental State Examination.
*
<.05 indicates significance.