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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Oct 15.
Published in final edited form as: Mov Disord. 2008 Oct 15;23(13):1830–1836. doi: 10.1002/mds.22097

Table 1.

Participant characteristics

Demographic NC CAG+
Number of subjects 112 43
Age (yr)a,b 38 ± 8 37 ± 8
Education (yr)b 15 ± 3 16 ± 3
Male-female ratioc,d 27/85 19/24
Race (%white)c 98 98
Handedness (% right)c 87 93
Auditory reaction time (ms)b,d 0.004 ± 0.002 0.005 ± 0.003
Visual reaction time (ms)b,e 0.001 ± 0.002 0.002 ± 0.002
Decision reaction time (ms)b,e 0.001 ± 0.003 0.003 ± 0.004
Movement time (ms)b,e -0.0003 ± 0.003 0.001 ± 0.004
Decision movement time (ms)b,e -0.001 ± 0.003 0.000001 ± 0.003
Button tapping (30 × 0.1 s)b,e -0.27 ± 0.27 -0.10 ± 0.34
WAIS-R arithmeticb 0.021 ± 0.22 -0.03 ± 0.24
WAIS-R picture arrangementb,d 0.15 ± 0.34 -0.01 ± 0.44
WAIS-R digit symbolb,e -0.64 ± 0.81 -1.112 ± 0.95
a

Age at initial study visit

b

Mean ± Standard Deviation

c

Ratio and percentages (%) were evaluated by Fisher's exact test statistic. All other comparisons performed using t-test

d

p < .05

e

p ≤ .01