Simultaneous Assessment of White Matter Changes in Microstructure and Connectedness in the Blind Brain

Table 2

Regions of significantly decreased fractional anisotropy (FA) in CB and LB compared to NS individuals.

FA Tract ROI	CB			LB
			MNI-coordinates			MNI-coordinates
			(, , )—mm			(, , )—mm
OR	151	<0.0005	(−32, −52, −2)	74	<0.0005	(−34, −48, −2)
	141	<0.0005	(38, −56, −2)	86	<0.0005	(30, −72, 2)
ILF & IFOF	112	<0.0005	(−38, −42, −8)	103	<0.0005	(−38, −44, −6)
	79	0.001	(36, −44, −4)	99	<0.0005	(44, −24, −14)
SLF	8	0.005	(−42, −18, 26)	—	—	—
	17	0.001	(36, −54, 16)	4	0.02	(40, −14, 24)
Splenium	303	0.001	(2, −34, 8)	4	0.04	(0, −34, 10)
Midbody	46	0.004	(6, 4, 12)	1	0.05	(−4, 16, 22)
Genu	25	0.006	(−6, 20, 12)	2	0.05	(−12, 36, 8)
CST	46	0.001	(−20, −16, −10)	9	0.03	(−14, −14, −6)
	46	0.001	(18, −14, 10)	15	0.03	(18, −18, −4)

Abbreviations identical to Table 1 but based on tract ROI differences in FA.