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. 2006 May 17;32(3):507–524. doi: 10.1093/schbul/sbj078

Table 4.

Neurocognitive Domain and Individual Test Scores Among High-Risk and Community Control (n = 84) Groups

Domaina/Individual Test Variableb HR-SCZ (1)
HR-AFF (2)
CC (3)
Pairwise Comparisonsc
n Mean (SD) n Mean (SD) n Mean (SD) 1–2 dd 1–3 dd 2–3 dd
Verbal Ability 73 −.64 (.77) 18 −.51 (1.24) 84 0.0 (.91) .661 .09 <.001 .73 .015 .64
    WRAT-3 Reading SS 73 99.5 (11.4) 18 101.9 (17.5) 84 107.2 (11.6) .602 .14 <.001 .57 .102 .44
    Vocabulary ScS 73 9.2 (2.6) 18 9.4 (3.7) 83 11.3 (3.5) .841 .02 <.001 .73 .005 .73
Visual-Spatial 73 −.22 (.66) 18 −.19 (1.03) 84 0.0 (1.00) .961 .02 .179 .22 .421 .24
    Block Design ScS 72 9.4 (2.4) 18 9.4 (3.6) 83 10.1 (3.5) .961 .02 .179 .22 .421 .24
Verbal Memory 73 −.24 (.97) 18 .04 (.93) 84 −.001 (1.00) .321 .28 .067 .27 .978 .01
    Story Recall Percentage 72 .47 (.13) 18 .50 (.13) 84 .50 (.13) .321 .28 .067 .26 .978 .01
Executive Functioning/Working Memory 73 −.31 (.64) 18 −.09 (.64) 84 0.0 (.74) .207 .31 .006 .47 .540 .16
    COWA Raw Score 73 34.2 (10.8) 18 35.2 (11.5) 84 37.4 (10.9) .780 .08 .034 .37 .271 .29
    Digit Span ScS 73 10.3 (2.9) 18 9.6 (2.2) 82 11.0 (3.4) .326 .25 .158 .22 .047 .47
    Coding/Digit Symbol ScS 72 9.2 (2.9) 18 11.5 (2.9) 82 10.0 (3.0) .004 .79 .067 .29 .063 .51
    TMT-B (sec) 73 65.9 (25.0) 18 60.3 (31.7) 83 58.8 (36.3) .558 .12 .347 .13 .831 .01
Motor 73 .02 (.85) 18 −.04 (1.13) 84 .01 (.72) .967 .10 .844 .03 .643 .07
    Grooved Pegboard R (sec) 69 71.7 (17.7) 18 73.2 (17.9) 79 70.6 (13.5) .847 .13 .709 .06 .395 .19
    Grooved Pegboard L (sec) 69 78.3 (19.1) 18 75.2 (19.4) 79 78.7 (16.8) .556 .15 .603 .10 .415 .24
    TMT-A (sec) 73 27.2 (8.5) 18 27.5 (12.9) 83 27.6 (12.4) .568 .08 .312 .15 .643 .06
Sustained Attention 73 −.0007 (.76) 18 .22 (.79) 84 0.0 (.92) .296 .30 .668 .08 .534 .21
    CPT-IP Digits d' 66 1.6 (.92) 18 1.8 (.76) 77 1.6 (1.01) .473 .20 .706 .09 .641 .11
    CPT-IP Shapes d' 66 1.7 (.83) 18 1.9 (.90) 79 1.7 (.97) .271 .33 .674 .08 .490 .25

Note: HR-SCZ = genetic high-risk for schizophrenia; HR-AFF = genetic high-risk for affective psychosis; CC = community controls.

a

Neurocognitive domain scores are z-scores.

b

Individual test scores reflect the actual number of subjects prior to the imputation of missing data. WRAT-3 score is a standard score (SS); subtests of the WISC-III/WAIS-R/WAIS-III (Vocabulary, Block Design, Coding/Digit Symbol) are (age-corrected) scaled scores (ScS); Story Recall Percentage is the percentage of units recalled on immediate recall condition for CMS Stories/WMS-R and WMS-III Logical Memory I; COWA (Controlled Oral Word Association test) is a raw score (total words generated); Grooved Pegboard and TMT raw scores are in seconds; CPT-IP values are d'.

c

1–2 = HR-SCZ vs HR-AFF; 1–3 = HR-SCZ vs CC; 2–3 = HR-AFF vs CC, controlling for subject age, mean parental education, and correlated data in a mixed model; statistically significant comparisons (p < .05) are in boldface.

d

d = Cohen's d based on least squared means, controlling for subject age and mean parental education.