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Dear Douglas,
I am sorry for the late response. I did not see your message up until now. I would like to see how the brain changes for a patient with anxiety who got better gradually (again, we have 5-time points (0, 3, 6, 9, 12). And then do the same for another participant who did not get better up until 12 months. That is the reason I would like to look at patients one by one.
I ran the mri_glmfit analysis but I received an error message:
ERROR: DOF=0
Is this because I tried to run it on one participant?
Sincerely, Isa Rosselini
Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2025 09:20:40 -0500 From: "Douglas N. Greve" dgreve@mgh.harvard.edu Subject: Re: [Freesurfer] longitudinal analysis on one subject To: freesurfer@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu Message-ID: ebc3545a-9335-4b43-b7ae-da3c0b1d0bdb@mgh.harvard.edu Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"
The glm can be run on this data in theory. With only 5 time points, you probably won't have much power though. What are you trying to test?
On Sat, Feb 1, 2025 at 11:56 PM Isabella Rossellini irossellini86@gmail.com wrote:
Hello Freesurfer users/experts,
I am working with Freesurfer 7.4.1 on a MacStudio (macOS 15.2) and I would like to ask your opinion about the following.
Basically, we had an anxiety treatment study and I would like to analyze one subject who has 5-time points (0, 3, 6, 9, 12) with a longitudinal pipeline, two-stage model. Is it possible to run this on one person only and see the changes between these time points?
I have never done this before on one subject so I am not sure what the best approach would be to look at the changes. After running the longitudinal preprocessing (base, long), should I generate the tables of freesurfer parcellation/segmentation stats data (aparcstats2table, asegstats2table)? Or can I just follow the two stage model steps? Maybe glm only works on a group of subjects. https://secure-web.cisco.com/1RCkpkv-7j7POY3iFHgRmXEUWgfCzKlqbBUGWLnc2RlZdY5...
(We have 9 more subjects - 10 in total - so I was hoping to visualize the pattern of changes one by one, in each subject, since these patients showed different changes in anxiety based on self-reported questionnaires)
Sincerely, Isa Rosselini