Handedness Side and Magnetization Transfer Ratio in the Primary Sensorimotor Cortex Central Sulcus

Table 1

Cortical thickness and MT ratio values are expressed in terms of mean ± standard deviation, evaluated within the ROIs representing the primary sensory motor cortex parcellation, according to the Destrieux atlas. For each ROI, the p-value of the Mann-Whitney U test, performed to assess any significant difference in cortical thickness and MT ratio between left- and right-handers, is reported.

Region of interest	Thickness			MT ratio
	(mm)			(%)
	Left-handers	Right-handers	p-value	Left-handers	Right-handers	p-value
Left precentral gyrus	2.76 ± 0.18	2.74 ± 0.16	0.79	27.71 ± 4.65	28.87 ± 2.05	0.54
Left central sulcus	1.86 ± 0.17	1.89 ± 0.08	0.72	33.27 ± 4.65	33.74 ± 1.26	0.16
Left postcentral gyrus	2.07 ± 0.26	1.97 ± 0.11	0.38	28.23 ± 5.53	28.45 ± 2.41	0.72
Right precentral gyrus	2.80 ± 0.15	2.82 ± 0.17	0.72	27.92 ± 2.96	30.09 ± 2.01	0.13
Right central sulcus	1.87 ± 0.16	1.86 ± 0.07	1.00	31.92 ± 0.96	33.28 ± 0.94	0.007
Right postcentral gyrus	2.07 ± 0.31	1.95 ± 0.13	0.38	26.65 ± 3.34	28.50 ± 2.41	0.38

Significant after Holm-Bonferroni correction for multiple comparisons using a threshold value of 0.05.