Asymmetrical hippocampal connectivity in mesial temporal lobe epilepsy: evidence from resting state fMRI

BMC Neuroscience

Table 1 Hippocampal volumetric data and comparison between groups

	Manual volumetric measurements
	Control Group			Right MTLE group			Left MTLE group
Subject	VLH *(mm3)*	VRH *(mm3)*	QAI	VLH *(mm3)*	VRH *(mm3)*	QAI	VLH *(mm3)*	VRH *(mm3)*	QAI
1	4126	4964	0.17	4437	3215	0.28	2589	4545	0.4304
2	4607	4398	0.05	6400	4885	0.24	5919	6440	0.0809
3	4852	4521	0.07	3340	2416	0.28	3902	4476	0.1282
4	6170	5266	0.15	5122	3689	0.28	3384	4777	0.2916
5	4979	4521	0.09	5014	3033	0.40	5551	5770	0.0380
6	4312	4438	0.03	3841	3493	0.09	3842	4653	0.1743
7	4545	4436	0.02	4371	3373	0.23	2194	3440	0.3622
8	4728	4938	0.04	5143	3408	0.34	2943	5224	0.4366
9	5740	5378	0.06	6113	2870	0.53	3481	4601	0.2434
mean	4895.4	4762.2	0.08	4864.6	3375.8	0.29	3756.1	4880.7	0.2428
std	662.7	381.6	0.05	992.5	681.1	0.12	1255.3	853.9	0.1481
	Ipsilateral comparisons
	Control vs Right MTLE			Control vs Left MTLE			Right MTLE vs Left MTLE
	VLH	VRH	QAI	VLH	VRH	QAI	VLH	VRH	QAI
T-score	0.08	5.33	-5.33	2.41	-0.38	-3.18	2.08	-4.13	0.85
P-value	0.94	<0.001	<0.001	<0.05	0.71	<0.01	<0.05	<0.001	0.41
	Contralateral comparisons
	VLH of Right MTLE			VRH of Right MTLE
	group VS			group VS
	VRH of Left MTLE group			VLH of Left MTLE group
T-score	-0.04			-0.80
P-value	0.97			0.44

VLH, volume of left hippocampus; VRH, volume of right hippocampus; QAI, quantitative asymmetric index.

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