Table 2:

Neuropsychological data of control subjects

sCON (n = 152)dCON (n = 176)P Value
MSDMSD
MMSE28.61.228.41.5.439
IADL8.30.828.31.1.933
HADS total5.73.56.23.91.000
    Anxiety4.32.64.52.71.000
    Depression1.41.61.81.9.248
Digit Span Forward5.61.15.80.96.386
Visual Memory Span Forward (Corsi)5.10.975.10.89.876
RI-48 Cued Recall Test
    Delayed cued recall27.35.026.85.11.000
Shapes test
    Total score (3 immediate recalls)33.93.232.74.3.004a
    Delayed recall11.70.7411.41.3.024a
Boston Naming Test19.31.019.21.2.680
Digit Symbol Coding56.111.850.811.0<.001a
Trail-Making Test A
    Time (s)42.116.042.011.41.000
    Error0.050.250.070.311.000
Trail-Making Test B
    Time (s)98.741.9105.743.0.667
    Error0.510.730.480.751.000
Verbal Fluency22.05.622.56.51.000
Wisconsin Card Sorting Test
    No. of categories completed4.62.14.32.2.223
Praxis
    Constructional10.90.4810.70.77.032
    Ideomotor transitive9.40.819.11.2.008a
    Ideomotor intransitive19.51.119.51.0.686
    Reflexive7.00.986.91.1.665
Visual gnosis (Ghent Overlapping Figures)5.00.085.00.08.917
  • Note:—IADL indicates Lawton Instrumental Activities of Daily Living scale; HADS, Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale; M, mean.

  • a Significant.