Research Article
Decreased Interhemispheric Functional Connectivity and Its Associations with Clinical Correlates following Traumatic Brain Injury
Table 1
Demographic and clinical characteristics of the enrollment.
| | Overall | TBI | HC | -value |
| | () | () | () | | | Gender (%) | | | | 0.946 | | Male | 34 (65.4) | 19 (63.3) | 15 (68.2) | | | Female | 18 (34.6) | 11 (36.7) | 7 (31.8) | | | Age (median [IQR]) | 32.50 [25.75, 45.00] | 34.50 [26.00, 45.75] | 31.50 [25.00, 41.75] | 0.565 | | Education (median [IQR]) | 9.00 [7.50, 12.00] | 9.00 [6.00, 12.00] | 9.00 [9.00, 11.25] | 0.795 | | Time since injury (median [IQR]) | | 6 [4.00, 11.00] | | — | | Cause of injury (%) | | Traffic accident | | 19 (63.33) | | — | | Fall | | 7 (23.33) | | — | | Struck by/against | | 4 (13.33) | | — | | GCS on admission (%) | | 13-15 | | 20 (66.67) | | — | | 9-12 | | 5 (16.67) | | — | | 3-8 | | 5 (16.67) | | — | | Loss of consciousness (%) | | Yes | | 19 (63.33) | | — | | No | | 9 (30.00) | | — | | Unknown | | 2 (6.67) | | — | | Intracerebral lesion on MRI scan (%) | | Yes | | 23 (76.67) | | — | | No | | 7 (23.33) | | — | | GOS-E (median [IQR]) | 6.50 [5.00,7.00] | | — | | Anxiety (median [IQR]) | 6.00 [3.75, 8.25] | 7.00 [5.00, 12.00] | 4.00 [3.00, 6.00] | 0.002 | | Depression (median [IQR]) | 4.50 [2.00, 7.25] | 6.50 [3.25, 10.00] | 2.50 [1.00, 4.75] | 0.002 |
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TBI: traumatic brain injury; HC: healthy control; IQR: interquartile range; GCS: Glasgow coma scale; and GOS-E: Glasgow outcome scale-extended.
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