Table 2:

Relation between deep gray matter MTR and cognition in AD patients at baseline

	MMSE
	r	p
Left hippocampus	0.57	<0.01
Right hippocampus	0.38	0.048
Left putamen	0.70	<0.001
Right putamen	0.60	<0.01
Left thalamus	0.52	<0.01
Right thalamus	0.42	0.029
Left caudate nucleus	0.07	0.69
Right caudate nucleus	-0.06	0.72

Note:—Stronger correlations can be consistently observed in the left hemisphere.