The clinical characteristics and the atrophy values for patients with Parkinson’s disease and controls
| N | Sex (F/M) | Age (years)* | UPDRS* | Duration (years)† | MMSE‡ | PFC right‡ | PFC left‡ | Hippocampus right‡ | Hippocampus left‡ | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| *Values are mean and SD; †values are mean, SD, and range; ‡values are mean, SD, median, and range. | ||||||||||
| F, female; M, male; MMSE, Mini-Mental State Examination; PFC, prefrontal cortex; UPDRS, Unified Parkinson’s Disease Rating Scale. | ||||||||||
| Patients | 20 | 7/13 | 61.3; 7.0 | 29.7 (6.3) | 1.7; 0.8; | 26.7; 1.5; | 1.90; 0.64; | 1.90; 0.64; | 1.15; 0.81; | 1.05; 0.89; |
| 0.7–4 | 26.5; 24–29 | 2; 0–3 | 2; 0–3 | 1; 0–2 | 1; 0–3 | |||||
| Controls | 22 | 13/9 | 65.7; 9.3 | – | – | 28.8; 1.1; | 1.73; 0.88; | 1.73; 0.88; | 0.45; 0.67; | 0.64; 0.66; |
| 29; 27–30 | 2; 0–4 | 2; 0–4 | 0; 0–2 | 1; 0–2 | ||||||
| p Value | 0.12 | 0.09 | <0.0001 | 0.02 | 0.02 | 0.001 | 0.01 | |||









