A MRS study of metabolic alterations in the frontal white matter of major depressive disorder patients with the treatment of SSRIs

Table 1 Pre-treatment MRS exam of patient and control groups

	Left frontal white matter regions		Right frontal white matter regions
	NAA/Cr	Cho/Cr	NAA/Cr	Cho/Cr
Patient (n = 17)	1.51 (0.17)	0.99 (0.09)	1.61 (0.16)	0.97 (0.11)
Controls (n = 19)	1.59 (0.15)	1.08 (0.11)	1.63 (0.13)	1.10 (0.15)
t value	0.91	2.45	0.31	2.53
P value	0.31	0.03	0.20	0.04

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