Results

Results indicated that cortical thickness for the CMV seropositive group was not significantly different than the CMV negative group for any contrast. The imaging viewer Mango was then used to simply view the results of the analysis without thresholds for p < 0.05. It should be made explicit that these results were not statistically significant, but may indicate that with greater power, a difference may be detected. The CMV seropositive group demonstrated increased cortical thickness in the bilateral insular cortex, with more differences detected in the left hemisphere (see Figure 0). The CMV seronegative group, on the other hand, did not demonstrate any areas of increased cortical thickness. Figure 1 illustrates the mean cortical thickness for each group.
Figure 0. Increased cortical thickness for the seropositive group compared to the seronegative group