TABLE 5:
Pearson correlation coefficients between brain metabolite levels and cognitive scores
| Test | Composite |
L Frontal |
R Frontal |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cho | Cr | NAA | Cho | Cr | NAA | Cho | Cr | NAA | |
| WASI | |||||||||
| Correlation | −0.20 | −0.02 | 0.29 | −0.39 | 0.19 | 0.51 | 0.04 | −0.20 | 0.47 |
| P value | .55 | .94 | .36 | .21 | .54 | .09 | .91 | .54 | .12 |
| WJ MATH | |||||||||
| Correlation | −0.22 | 0.06 | 0.54 | −0.57 | 0.02 | 0.64 | 0.12 | −0.07 | 0.72 |
| P value | .49 | .84 | .07 | .06 | .95 | .03* | .71 | .84 | .01† |
| CELF | |||||||||
| Correlation | −0.03 | −0.50 | 0.21 | −0.01 | −0.11 | 0.32 | −0.09 | −0.47 | 0.38 |
| P value | .92 | .10 | .50 | .99 | .74 | .31 | .78 | .12 | .23 |
Note.—CELF indicates Clinical Examination of Language Function; WASI, Wechsler Abbreviated Scale of Intelligence; and WJ Math, Woodcock Johnson Arithmetic Achievement subtest. Correlations for L and R parietal regions were not significant and are not shown.
*
P < .05.
†
P < .01.