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Table 3 Network nodes showing significant differences of the betweenness centrality between the patients with occipital lobe epilepsy and healthy controls

From: Structural brain network analysis in occipital lobe epilepsy

Network nodes

Healthy controls (N = 42)

Patients with occipital lobe epilepsy (N = 23)

 

Kleist atlas

     

(function)

Mean

SD

Mean

SD

p-value

right K1 3a 3b

42.87

15.93

26.86

13.52

0.0001

(Touch, Pain, Temperature sensation)

left K19 1

18.49

12.69

33.42

15.63

0.0002

(Calculation, Recognition of numbers, Reading, Visual thinking, Visual recognition)

right K19 3

56.10

17.85

39.96

15.53

0.0003

(Color and object recognition)

right K23 24 26 29 30 31 32 33

43.93

17.40

27.87

13.53

0.0001

(Corporeal ego, personal experience and awareness)

right K39 1

5.50

3.94

10.23

5.25

0.0004

(Constructive action, sensory)

right K8 1

47.79

11.80

67.89

20.30

0.0001

(Falling and pointing reactions)

Automated anatomical labelling 3 atlas

Mean

SD

Mean

SD

p-value

left Posterior cingulate gyrus

29.35

9.64

38.82

18.01

0.0074

left Fusiform gyrus

49.04

14.12

72.97

53.40

0.0078

left Superior temporal gyrus

83.66

20.73

101.79

33.71

0.0092

left Middle temporal gyrus

79.51

20.52

100.43

32.57

0.0023

left Inferior occipital gyrus

20.15

9.61

32.22

23.12

0.0043

left Lingual gyrus

45.34

15.23

66.13

38.66

0.0030

left Superior parietal gyrus

15.10

6.12

23.18

15.51

0.0040

right Posterior cingulate gyrus

22.38

9.23

32.97

21.40

0.0071

right Inferior frontal gyrus,

opercular part

45.44

10.59

55.19

18.05

0.0078

right Parahippocampal gyrus

82.11

20.80

98.09

25.83

0.0085

right Postcentral gyrus

29.97

9.17

37.21

11.15

0.0065

right Temporal pole: middle

temporal gyrus

65.73

18.99

83.85

34.21

0.0077

right Calcarine fissure and

surrounding cortex

41.96

14.34

59.50

37.84

0.0092

right Precentral gyrus

23.74

11.71

41.00

16.10

< 0.0001

right Insula

13.82

4.17

25.59

21.78

0.0011

right Lingual gyrus

31.17

10.85

52.28

37.00

0.0010

right Superior occipital gyrus

32.63

8.89

58.76

55.11

0.0036

right Superior temporal gyrus

57.44

14.83

82.50

55.27

0.0072

  1. SD: standard deviation, CI: confidence interval