Table 2:

Global properties of structural networks of controls and all patients with epilepsy, frontal lobe epilepsy, and temporal lobe epilepsy relative to controls

ControlsAll EpilepsyFLETLE
Network strength ± SD0.7183 ± 0.02490.6960 ± 0.0226 (P = .0002)a0.6900 ± 0.0244 (P = .00012)a0.7049 ± 0.0189 (P = .0641)
Clustering coefficient ± SD0.0041 ± 0.00040.0041 ± 0.0005 (P = .8034)0.0040 ± 0.0005 (P = .3091)0.0041 ± 0.0004 (P = .6662)
Characteristic path length ± SD32.0769 ± 1.122233.3724 ± 1.3593 (P < .0001)a33.6940 ± 1.4205 (P < .0001)a33.0110 ± 1.2915 (P = .0142)a
Global efficiency ± SD0.0419 ± 0.00130.0407 ± 0.0014 (P = .0003)a0.0403 ± 0.0015 (P < .0001)a0.0412 ± 0.0013 (P = .0613)
Small-world property ± SD2.0018 ± 0.14352.0772 ± 0.1483 (P = .0353)a2.0646 ± 0.1562 (P = .1335)2.0750 ± 0.1374 (P = .0992)