TABLE 1.

Fractional anisotropy (FA) and mean diffusivity (MD) values for the different cortical lobes.

		Patients		Healthy subjects		P
FA	Frontal cortex	0.173	±0.009	0.171	±0.007	0.38
	Parietal cortex	0.154	±0.013	0.154	±0.008	0.97
	Temporal cortex	0.169	±0.012	0.177	±0.007	0.009
	Occipital cortex	0.143	±0.014	0.151	±0.010	0.03
MD	Frontal cortex	0.957	±0.030	0.935	±0.029	0.01
	Parietal cortex	1.028	±0.083	0.973	±0.038	0.004
	Temporal cortex	0.909	±0.037	0.861	±0.026	<0.001
	Occipital cortex	1.010	±0.123	0.917	±0.049	0.001

Significant p-values are presented in bold. MD is given in units of 10^–3 mm² s^–1.