. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 Aug 1.

Published in final edited form as: Neurotox Res. 2021 Mar 22;39(4):1054–1075. doi: 10.1007/s12640-021-00342-0

Table 5.

Significant correlations between magnetic resonance spectroscopy neurometabolite levels and diffusion tensor imaging metrics in supraventricular white matter

Participant group	Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy Neurometabolite metric	Diffusion Tensor Imaging Metric	Correlation r	Correlation p
ADHD+PAE	Total creatine	axial diffusivity	+ 0.68	0.001
ADHD-PAE	Glutamate	fractional anisotropy	+ 0.49	0.047
ADHD-PAE	Choline-compounds	fractional anisotropy	+ 0.75	0.001
ADHD-PAE	Choline-compounds	mean diffusivity	− 0.57	0.017
ADHD-PAE	Choline-compounds	radial diffusivity	− 0.71	0.001
TD	Glutamate	fractional anisotropy	− 0.42	0.033
TD	Glutamate	radial diffusivity	+ 0.39	0.046