Altered White Matter Integrity in the Congenital and Late Blind People

Table 2

Correlations between FA values of each ROI and duration of blindness, age of onset, and chronological age in the LB.

ROI	MNI coordinates	Blindness duration		Age of onset		Chronological age
		r	P value	r	P value	r	P value
L_OR	−24, −80, 1	0.14	−0.041	0.86	0.56	0.11	0.64
R_OR	30, 72, 4	−0.25	−0.10	0.67	0.27	−0.32	0.16
Genu of CC	6, 13, 22	−0.47	0.086	0.71	0.031	−0.42	0.057
ATR	16, 17, −3	−0.41	0.21	0.37	0.070	−0.28	0.22
aIFOF	28, 33, 8	−0.042	−0.041	0.86	0.86	−0.068	0.77
pSLF	20, −41, 39	−0.051	0.20	0.93	0.83	−0.039	0.87

aIFOF: anterior inferior frontal occipital fasciculus; ATR: anterior thalamic radiation; CC: corpus callosum; FA: fractional anisotropy; OR: optic radiation; pSLF: posterior superior longitudinal fasciculus; and r: correlation coefficient.