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. 2021 May 4;7:10. doi: 10.1038/s41514-021-00063-w

Table 2.

Quantification of regions of interest MR images.

Age Volume (mm3) Statistics Significance Percentage (%) Statistics Significance
Whole Young 218.73 ± 9.9 t(8) = 1.759 p = 0.117
Old 240.18 ± 7.14
Learning/Memory regions
CTX Young 71.03 ± 1.96 t(8) = 0.759 p = 0.470 32.51 ± 0.48 t(8) = 3.277 p = 0.011*
Old 68.63 ± 2.48 28.66 ± 1.06
OB Young 9.43 ± 0.56 t(7) = 1.378 p = 0.211 4.11 ± 0.21 t(7) = 0.006 p = 0.995
Old 10.29 ± 0.44 4.32 ± 0.26
HIP Young 12.37 ± 0.46 t(8) = 3.800 p = 0.005* 5.67 ± 0.26 t(8) = 4.226 p = 0.003*
Old 10.09 ± 0.38 4.23 ± 0.22
CP Young 12.09 ± 0.53 t(8) = 0.513 p = 0.622 5.53 ± 0.20 t(8) = 1.137 p = 0.288
Old 12.45 ± 0.45 5.20 ± 0.21
CB Young 31.44 ± 1.02 t(7) = 3.556 p = 0.009* 14.06 ± 0.56 t(7) = 3.787 p = 0.007*
Old 27.07 ± 0.63 11.32 ± 0.41
BLA Young 2.33 ± 0.32 t(8) = 1.252 p = 0.246 0.32 ± 0.04 t(8) = 2.060 p = 0.073
Old 1.92 ± 0.11 0.24 ± 0.01
Circadian visual regions
opt Young 2.07 ± 0.04 t(4) = 5.814 p = 0.004* 0.27 ± 0.01 t(4) = 3.484 p = 0.025*
Old 3.32 ± 0.16 0.40 ± 0.03
dLGN Young 2.44 ± 0.12 t(8) = 2.525 p = 0.036* 0.33 ± 0.03 t(8) = 2.975 p = 0.025*
Old 2.03 ± 0.11 0.25 ± 0.01
vLGN Young 0.79 ± 0.05 t(8) = 0.161 p = 0.876 0.11 ± 0.01 t(8) = 0.878 p = 0.406
Old 0.8 ± 0.05 0.10 ± 0.004
EPI Young 1.05 ± 0.08 t(8) = 1.928 p = 0.090 0.14 ± 0.02 t(8) = 2.557 p = 0.034*
Old 0.83 ± 0.08 0.10 ± 0.01
SC Young 4.63 ± 0.11 t(8) = 1.644 p = 0.139 0.63 ± 0.02 t(8) = 3.072 p = 0.015*
Old 4.12 ± 0.28 0.51 ± 0.03

CTX cortex, OB olfactory bulb, HIP hippocampus, CP caudate nucleus, CB cerebellum, BLA basolateral amygdala, opt optic tract, dLGN dorsal lateral geniculate nucleus, vLGN ventral lateral geniculate nucleus, EPI habenula, SC superior colliculus.

*Bolded and statistical significance at p < 0.05.

Trend toward significance p < 0.10.