Hi Ilana have you visually inspected the asegs? I would make sure that there are no systematic and/or biased segmentation results in which the putamen/insula are misassigned so that one is "stealing" from the other.
Bruce On Wed, 25 May 2011, Ilana Hairston wrote: > Hi there, > I have two behavioural variables that are inversely related to each other. > One was correlated with thinning of the posterior insula (using glm_mri), > while the other is positively correlated with the putamen volume (extracting > aseg tables and running in SPSS). > The region of the insula is basically adjacent to the putamen. So i'm > wondering whether these findings are related, and how would i go about > teasing this apart. > Thanks > ilana > _______________________________________________ > Freesurfer mailing list > Freesurfer@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu > https://mail.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/freesurfer > > > _______________________________________________ Freesurfer mailing list Freesurfer@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu https://mail.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/freesurfer The information in this e-mail is intended only for the person to whom it is addressed. If you believe this e-mail was sent to you in error and the e-mail contains patient information, please contact the Partners Compliance HelpLine at http://www.partners.org/complianceline . If the e-mail was sent to you in error but does not contain patient information, please contact the sender and properly dispose of the e-mail.