Table 1 Group demographics and clinical measures.

From: Body–mind relaxation meditation modulates the thalamocortical functional connectivity in major depressive disorder: a preliminary resting-state fMRI study

 

MDD patients

Healthy controls

p value

Age, year (mean ± SD)

36.05 ± 9.18

35.21 ± 7.92

0.74a

HAMD (mean ± SD)

30.48 ± 5.86

2.00 ± 2.02

<0.001a

Gender (female/male)

16/5

19/5

0.811b

  1. SD standard deviation, HAMD Hamilton Depression Rating Scale.
  2. aIndicates p values for two-sample t-test.
  3. bIndicates p values for Pearson chi2 t-test.
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