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. 2007 Apr 4;33(3):761–771. doi: 10.1093/schbul/sbm018

Table 4.

Cognitive Measures in FE, UHR, BS, and PCo Subgroups and Between-Group Comparisons (N = 185)

FE (n = 43) UHR (n = 69) BS (n = 24) PCo (n = 49) F
Measure Mean (SD) t Mean (SD) t Mean (SD) t Mean (SD) t
Verbal IQ 98.6 (9.9) 0.033 99.8 (11.3) <0.001 101.9 (10.9) NS 101.9 (10.9) NS NS
Letter-Number Span 12.5 (4.0) <0.001 12.8 (3.7) <0.001 14.8 (2.8) <0.001 14.3 (3.3) <0.001 0.013a
TMT B 71.6 (37.3) 0.004 67.7 (32.5) 0.001 71.5 (27.7) 0.006 67.9 (32.9) 0.009 NS
TMT B/A 42.1 (26.7) 0.003 38.0 (26.1) 0.008 39.1 (26.3) 0.072 41.1 (28.9) 0.01 NS
Letter fluency (S) 10.5 (4.7) <0.001 12.2 (4.8) <0.001 13.4 (4.6) 0.001 12.6 (4.5) <0.001 NS
Letter fluency (P) 7.1 (4.0) <0.001 9.5 (3.9) <0.001 9.4 (2.4) <0.001 9.3 (3.6) <0.001 0.013b
Category fluency (animals) 16.4 (5.7) <0.001 18.9 (5.3) <0.001 19.5 (4.1) <0.001 19.3 (6.5) <0.001 NS
Category fluency (professional groups) 12.1 (4.9) <0.001 13.4 (4.6) <0.001 14.7 (4.8) 0.005 14.1 (4.7) <0.001 NS
WCST perseverative errors 5.8 (2.4) <0.001 5.7 (2.3) <0.001 5.4 (1.4) <0.001 5.4 (2.0) <0.001 NS
WCST categories completed 4.1 (2.6) 0.039 4.1 (1.1) <0.001 4.4 (0.8) 0.001 4.2 (1.1) <0.001 NS
Verbal memory immediate recall 45.6 (18.5) <0.001 51.8 (14.1) 0.005 53.8 (10.2) NS 53.7 (11.7) NS 0.040c
Verbal memory delayed recall 9.4 (4.7) <0.001 10.8 (3.4) <0.001 11.3 (3.6) 0.026 12.0 (3.3) NS 0.015d
Sustained attention commission errors 3.4 (8.6) 0.047 2.6 (7.2) 0.027 0.6 (1.0) NS 0.8 (2.0) NS NS
Sustained attention omission errors 1.2 (1.7) 0.021 1.6 (2.0) <0.001 0.7 (0.9) NS 1.0 (1.6) NS NS
Alertness (median) 248.6 (111.0) NS 239.7 (137.5) NS 236.5 (30.3) NS 211.1 (43.7) NS NS

Note: Abbreviations are explained in the footnote to table 1. t: 1-sample t tests against normative values, only levels of significance are indicated in this table; F: analysis of variance over all study groups, only levels of significance are indicated in this table; SD, standard deviation; TMT, Trail-Making Test; WCST, Wisconsin Card Sorting Test. The following footnotes are post hoc comparisons.

a

FE: vs BS 0.010, vs PCo 0.019; UHR: vs BS 0.020, vs PCo 0.038.

b

FE: vs UHR 0.002, vs BS 0.020, vs PCo 0.009.

c

FE: vs UHR 0.031, vs BS 0.028, vs PCo 0.010.

d

FE: vs BS 0.050, vs PCo 0.002.