Volumetric associations between uncinate fasciculus, amygdala, and trait anxiety

BMC Neuroscience

Table 2 Associations between white matter/grey matter volumes and trait anxiety

hemisphere	brain tissue	structure	association with trait anxiety ^a
left	white matter	uncinate fasciculus	-0.35 (0.030) ^b
		inferior fronto-occipital fasciculus	0.01 (0.939)
	grey matter	amygdala	0.37 (0.048)
		hippocampus	0.34 (0.075)
		caudate	0.09 (0.639)
right	white matter	uncinate fasciculus	-0.15 (0.449)
		inferior fronto-occipital fasciculus	-0.04 (0.821)
	grey matter	amygdala	0.28 (0.144)
		hippocampus	0.44 (0.018)
		caudate	0.07 (0.710)

^a using partial correlations with age, sex, and depression as covariates of no interest, shown are r-values (p-values in brackets, significant results indicated in bold, marginally significant results indicated in italics). Note: For uncinate fasciculus, amygdala, and hippocampus, results underlay hypothesis-driven tests; the remaining tests underlay the null hypothesis.
^b one-tailed

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