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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Jun 1.
Published in final edited form as: Cortex. 2010 Jun 1;47(6):645–658. doi: 10.1016/j.cortex.2010.05.005

Table 1.

Demographic and Neuropsychological Data

Demographic/Measure PNFA (n=12) Control (n=24)
Mean SD Z-score Mean SD
Age (years) 73.17 6.95 n/a 69.46 7.87
Education (years) 14.33 2.67 n/a 15.42 8.02
1 MMSE (of 30) 22.17 6.81 n/a 29.22 .36
2 Boston Naming Test (15 item) 8.50 5.35 −4.84 14.25 1.19
3 Pyramids and Palm Trees Words 44.18 6.52 −5.97 50.64 1.56
3 Pyramids and Palm Trees Pictures 42.64 7.63 −5.01 50.43 1.56
4 Letter fluency (FAS) 3.12 2.93 −2.55 13.18 3.94
1

Mini Mental State Examination (Folstein et al., 1975);

2

15 item abbreviated version of the original 60-item Boston Naming Test (Kaplan et al., 1976);

3

The Pyramids and Palm Trees Test (Franklin et al., 1992) examines semantic association ability in two modalities, words and pictures;

4

Letter fluency naming score represents average words produced when for each cued letter (i.e., F, A, and S) in 60 seconds