Smoothing (FWHM) | FWE-correction level | Peak | Cluster | Correlations | ||||||
Memory scores | GM volumes | |||||||||
t | x (mm) | y (mm) | z (mm) | kE (nvox) | Structure | r | p-corr | |||
4 mm | Peak | 5.90 | −25 | −16 | −22 | 197 | L HPC head | 0.37 | 0.225 | L HPC head – R body: r=0.61, p-corr=0.002 L – R HPC head: r=0.64, p-corr=0.002 R HPC head – body: r=0.82, p-corr<0.0001 |
5.75 | 37 | −27 | −11 | 36 | R HPC body | 0.10 | 0.986 | |||
5.57 | 31 | −13 | −17 | 61 | R HPC head | 0.15 | 0.986 | |||
Cluster size | 5.90 | −25 | −16 | −22 | 2156 | L HPC head/body | 0.32 | 0.424 | R-L HPC: r=0.64, p-corr=0.005 R HPC – R Thal: r=0.54, p-corr=0.035 Rest of p-corr>0.15 | |
5.75 | 37 | −27 | −11 | 2721 | R HPC head/body | 0.03 | >0.999 | |||
5.22 | 19 | −28 | 5 | 3085 | R Thal | 0.34 | 0.424 | |||
4.74 | -2 | −39 | 40 | 2086 | L/R PCC/PrCu | −0.02 | >0.999 | |||
8 mm | Peak | 5.38 | 32 | −15 | −16 | 592 | R HPC head/body | 0.35 | 0.267 | R-L HPC: r=0.65, p-corr=0.0006 R HPC – R Thal: r=0.55, p-corr=0.006 L HPC – R Thal: r=0.46, p-corr=0.02 |
5.19 | −27 | −15 | −20 | 200 | L HPC head/body | 0.11 | 0.599 | |||
4.91 | 6 | −12 | 7 | 179 | R MD Thal | 0.36 | 0.267 | |||
Cluster size | 5.38 | 32 | −15 | −16 | 12 710 | L/R HPC/Thal | 0.31 | 0.294 | r=0.32, p-corr=0.13 | |
4.16 | -1 | −38 | 38 | 6606 | L/R PCC/PrCu | −0.03 | 0.900 |
Contrast: controls > patients; nuisance covariates: age, sex, TIV; voxel dimensions: 1 mm3 ; individual voxel threshold: p<0.001. The average GM volume from each cluster was extracted from each participant, residualised against age, sex, and TIV, and entered in a bivariate correlation analysis with the memory composite score. No correlation was noted with the GM volume of any cluster; hippocampal volume reduction strongly correlated with thalamic volume reduction in patients; p-corr: p values of the bivariate correlations conducted are adjusted for multiple testing using the Holm-Bonferroni sequential correction method, separately for the number of clusters disclosed in each of the four separate VBM analyses conducted.
GM, grey matter; HPC, hippocampus; L/R, left/right; MD, mediodorsal; PCC, posterior cingulate cortex; PrCu, precuneus; TIV, total intracranial volume; Thal, thalamus; VBM, voxel-based morphometry.