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Table 4 Correlation between CBF values and clinical scores in PD and PPS groups

From: Discriminative pattern of reduced cerebral blood flow in Parkinson’s disease and Parkinsonism-Plus syndrome: an ASL-MRI study

	HAMA		HAMD		MMSE		MoCA
	r	p	r	p	r	p	r	p
PD group
SMA.L	0.035	0.883	0.101	0.672	0.370	0.108	0.501	0.024
THA.R	−0.155	0.515	−0.157	0.509	0.745	< 0.001	0.723	< 0.001
FG_Med_Orb.L	−0.158	0.505	− 0.163	0.492	0.257	0.273	0.384	0.095
IFG_Tri.L	−0.271	0.248	−0.171	0.472	0.296	0.205	0.423	0.063
MFG.L	−0.042	0.862	0.020	0.932	0.425	0.062	0.584	0.007
Cere_Crus2.R	−0.087	0.716	−0.205	0.387	0.220	0.351	0.499	0.025
CN.L	−0.024	0.920	−0.032	0.894	0.464	0.039	0.548	0.012
PPS group
SMA.L	−0.095	0.781	−0.019	0.955	0.422	0.196	0.201	0.553
THA.R	0.053	0.878	0.299	0.372	0.267	0.427	0.179	0.599
FG_Med_Orb.L	−0.355	0.284	−0.090	0.793	0.592	0.055	0.307	0.359
IFG_Tri.L	−0.261	0.438	−0.088	0.798	0.783	0.004	0.539	0.087
MFG.L	−0.599	0.074	−0.192	0.571	0.399	0.224	0.217	0.522
Cere_Crus2.R	0.817	0.002	0.664	0.026	−0.043	0.901	0.034	0.921
CN.L	−0.218	0.520	−0.061	0.859	0.376	0.255	0.105	0.759

Abbreviations: CBF, cerebral blood flow; PD, Parkinson’s disease; PPS, Parkinsonism-Plus syndrome; SMA, supplementary motor area; THA, thalamus; FG_Med_Orb, frontal medial orbital gyrus; IFG_Tri, frontal inferior, triangle gyrus; MFG, frontal middle gyrus; Cere_Crus2, cerebellum_crus2; CN, caudate nucleus; L (R), left (right) hemisphere; HAMA, Hamilton Anxiety Scale; HAMD, Hamilton Depression Scale; MMSE, Mini-Mental State Examination; MoCA, Montreal Cognitive Assessment

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