TABLE 3.
Screening Test Results
| Semantic Dementia Patients (n = 36)
| ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Left n = 21 | Right n = 11 | Bilateral n = 4 | Left Versus Right | |
| mBNT total (n = 15) | 3.10 (1.67) | 4.73 (2.05) | 3.50 (2.89) | t = 2.19, P<0.05 |
| Animate (n = 5) | 0.52 (0.51) | 0.27 (0.47) | 0.50 (1.01) | NS |
| Inanimate (n = 10) | 2.57 (1.29) | 4.46 (1.75) | 3.02 (2.16) | t = 3.47, P<0.01 |
| Animate-inanimate % difference | 15.2 (9.80) | 40.0 (14.8) | 20.02 (1.83) | t = 5.69, P<0.001 |
| mBNT semantic knowledge (n = 30) | 13.67 (3.42) | 12.56 (5.07) | 13.12 (2.44) | NS |
| Animate (n = 10) | 6.60 (1.34) | 2.2 (3.35) | 4.66 (2.92) | t = 9.92, P<0.001 |
| Inanimate (n = 20) | 17.20 (2.74) | 17.76 (4.53) | 16.98 (2.13) | NS |
| mBNT word recognition (n = 30) | 10.20 (5.4) | 11.87 (3.28) | 10.81 (2.31) | NS |
| Animate (n = 10) | 4.61 (1.34) | 3.23 (1.64) | 3.33 (1.14) | t = 22.54, P<0.05 |
| Inanimate (n = 20) | 13.02 (5.35) | 15.95 (2.94) | 13.20 (2.45) | NS |
| Category fluency (animals/min) | 5.14 (3.23) | 5.27 (2.15) | 6.50 (4.95) | NS |
| Letter fluency (âFâ words/min) | 5.64 (3.18) | 8.09 (2.51) | 5.50 (3.54) | t = 2.21, P<0.05 |
The t tests are 2-tailed with 30 degrees of freedom.
mBNT indicates mini-Boston Naming Test; NS, nonsignificant.