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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 May 3.
Published in final edited form as: Lancet Psychiatry. 2017 Feb 16;4(4):310–319. doi: 10.1016/S2215-0366(17)30049-4

Table 5.

Results of the exploration of the effect of medication on case-control differences

Patients currently not taking stimulants versus controls* Stimulant use in patients: positive versus negative lifetime history
n Cases/Controls Cohen’s d (95%CI) p-value for Diagnosis n Never/ever stimulant use in patients only p-value for positive versus negative for lifetime stimulant use
Accumbens 776/1484 −0.12 (−0.21 – −0.03) 0.007 79/625 0.32
Amygdala 753/1474 −0.18 (−0.27 – −0.10) 4.90 ×10−9 80/590 0.41
Caudate 777/1502 −0.10 (−0.19 – −0.01) 0.02 80/627 0.15
Hippocampus 757/1446 −0.08 (−0.17 – 0.003) 0.06 80/593 0.69
Pallidum 776/1484 0.01 (−0.07 – 0.10) 0.74 79/621 0.26
Putamen 784/1508 −0.13 (−0.22 – −0.04) 0.004 81/627 0.29
Thalamus 692/1253 −0.03 (0.04 – −0.12) 0.53 80/458 0.29
ICV 793/1512 −0.06 (0.04 – −0.16) 0.15 81/632 0.92
*

within this group, 152 subjects were lifetime positive for the use of stimulant medication, 82 were lifetime negative; for 565 no lifetime information was available.