I never heard anything on my post here, but it might just be high 
surface resolution:

http://www.mail-archive.com/neuro-mult-c...@brainvis.wustl.edu/msg00026.html

On 10/16/2009 09:58 AM, Michael Harms wrote:
> Your FDR analysis sounds correct.  You probably have a rather small
> number of "marginally" significant vertices, which is why none survive
> FDR.  You could try increasing the "q" value from say 0.05 to 0.1, in
> which case 10% of the surviving vertices would be expected to be false
> positives.
>
> cheers,
> Mike H.
>
> On Fri, 2009-10-16 at 12:03 +0200, Yulia WORBE wrote:
>   
>> Dear Freesurfer team,
>>
>> We are currently doing a cortical thickness studies between a group of  
>> psychiatric patients (n=60) and controls (n=30). We tested several  
>> smoothing levels (15mm, 20mm, 25mm)
>>
>> When setting an uncorrected threshold (such as p<0.005), we obtained  
>> several regions of decreased thickness, which are consistent with the  
>> pathology.
>>
>> However, when trying to correct for multiple comparisons using FDR  
>> ("Set Using FDR" button in qdec), the computed threshold is very high  
>> (e.g. 4.3 for 20mm smoothing) and, obviously, no significant regions  
>> are left.
>>
>> Did we do anything wrong in the analysis ?
>>
>> Thank you very much for your help,
>> Yulia
>>
>>
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