Table 1 Clinico-demographic and imaging variables in healthy volunteer (HV) and schizophrenia (SCZ) groups.

From: The relationship between cortical synaptic terminal density marker SV2A and glutamate early in the course of schizophrenia: a multimodal PET and MRS imaging study

 

HV

SCZ

t

Kolmogorov–Smirnov Z

Chi-squared

df

p

Age (years)

29.79 [1.84, 8.03]

26.52 [1.74, 7.99]

1.01

0.26

Male, female (n)

16, 3

17, 4

0.07

0.79

Ethnicity White, Black, Asian, other (n)

10, 5, 3, 1

4, 11, 4, 2

5.21

0.16

Current smoker (n)

5

7

0.23

0.63

Cannabis users within last month (n)

1

2

0.26

0.61

Activity injected (MBq)

265.42 [5.10, 22.22]

221.24 [12.84, 58.85]

1.23

0.10

Injected mass (μg)

3.19 [0.24, 1.04]

3.18 [0.35, 1.59]

0.56

0.91

Specific radioactivity (GBq/μmol)

30.17 [2.76, 12.03]

25.64 [2.21, 10.11]

0.67

0.77

Minimum purity (fraction)

99.97 [0.03, 0.15]

100 [0.00, 0.00]

0.17

1.00

[11C]UCB-J plasma-free fraction (fp)

0.24 [0.006, 0.02]

0.27 [0.007, 0.03]

1.20

0.12

Illness duration (years)

2.67 [0.46, 2.11]

Drug-free interval (days)

180.42 [27.71, 120.78]

PANSS Total score

65.29 [3.29, 15.09]

PANSS Positive score

17.05 [1.24, 5.69]

PANSS Negative score

17.81 [0.95, 4.33]

PANSS General score

30.43 [1.81, 8.32]

CS VT

5.53 [0.14, 0.62]

6.34 [0.37, 1.69]

0.97

0.30

ACC

DVR

4.09 [0.12, 0.52]

3.66 [0.14, 0.66]

1.44

0.03

Glu/Cr

1.14 [0.02, 0.07]

1.17 [0.02, 0.10]

1.29

0.07

Glx/Cr

1.34 [0.03, 0.12]

1.35 [0.04, 0.18]

0.27

38

0.79

Left hippocampus

DVR

2.75 [0.09, 0.38]

2.57 [0.11, 0.49]

0.63

0.83

Glu/Cr

1.01 [0.04, 0.19]

1.06 [0.03, 0.13]

0.11

38

0.30

Glx/Cr

1.42 [0.07, 0.30]

1.42 [0.04, 0.19]

0.05

38

0.96

  1. Values are mean and standard error of the mean, standard deviation (SEM, SD) or, where indicated, number (n).