Variation in Thyroid-Stimulating Hormone and Cognitive Disorders in Unmedicated Middle-Aged Patients with Major Depressive Disorder: A Proton Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy Study

Table 3

Comparison of PFC and cerebellum biochemical metabolite ratios.

	MDD group	HC group	or	value
NAA/Cr of right PFC			-2.060	0.044^a	0.117
Cho/Cr of right PFC			-1.557	0.125^a	0.203
NAA/Cr of left PFC			-0.081	0.936^a	0.936
Cho/Cr of left PFC			-0.833	0.409^a	0.545
Right cerebellum NAA/Cr			-3.015	0.004^a	0.032
Right cerebellum Cho/Cr			-2.386	0.017^b	0.068
Left cerebellum NAA/Cr			-1.526	0.127^b	0.203
Left cerebellum Cho/Cr			-0.708	0.479^b	0.547

PFC: prefrontal cortex; MDD: major depression disorder; HC: healthy control; NAA/Cr: N-acetylaspartate/creatine; Cho/Cr: choline/creatine. ^a-test, significant. ^bMann-Whitney test.