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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Oct 1.
Published in final edited form as: Semin Arthritis Rheum. 2011 Apr 1;41(2):194–202. doi: 10.1016/j.semarthrit.2011.02.005

Table 3.

Change in Neuropsychiatric Test Scores at 12 Weeks by Treatment Group. Mean ± SD

Neuropsychiatric Measure Memantine Placebo P Valuea
n=30 n=17
ANAM throughput score:
 Code substitution, delayed memory −0.4 ± 14.4 2.8 ± 10.0 0.41
 Code substitution, immediate memory 4.8 ± 15.2 7.6 ± 8.9 0.44
 Code substitution 7.3 ± 7.2 6.2 ± 8.2 0.63
 Continuous performance test 12.8 ± 12.9 2.9 ± 26.5 0.16
 Matching to sample 0.6 ± 6.2 2.7 ± 4.6 0.23
 Mathematical processing 3.2 ± 7.2 2.0 ± 3.9 0.46
 Simultaneous spatial processing 4.1 ± 8.1 3.9 ± 3.2 0.93
 Simple reaction time 14.0 ± 41.0 5.1 ± 50.4 0.51
 Sternberg memory recall 7.0 ± 12.9 7.0 ± 11.4 0.99
ACR neuropsychiatric battery:
 Minimental State Exam 0.2 ± 1.3 0.5 ± 1.1 0.41
 Woodcock total −0.2 ± 2.7 −0.1 ± 3.2 0.96
 Trails A −3.6 ± 10.5 −5.7 ± 14.6 0.56
 Trails B −6.9 ± 26.2 −13.8 ± 26.7 0.40
 Rey total - copy 0.3 ± 3.7 1.7 ± 7.6 0.49
 Rey total – immediate recall 6.7 ± 5.7 5.1 ± 6.2 0.39
 Rey total – delayed recall 5.9 ± 5.6 6.4 ± 8.9 0.86
 Symbol score 3.0 ± 7.4 2.1 ± 9.7 0.71
 California Delay LDFR 2.6 ± 2.7 1.8 ± 3.8 0.40
 California Delay LDCR 2.8 ± 2.4 1.6 ± 2.5 0.14
 California Delay – Hits 0.6 ± 1.7 0.4 ± 2.4 0.71
 California Delay – FP −0.7 ± 1.8 0.2 ± 1.7 0.12
 Block total 2.7 ± 7.2 6.5 ± 6.0 0.07
 COWAT - F 2.0 ± 4.4 2.5 ± 4.4 0.71
 COWAT - A 0.6 ± 4.3 1.6 ± 3.0 0.41
 COWAT – S 3.6 ± 4.7 0.5 ± 3.8 0.03
 Coding score 5.5 ± 17.5 −2.0 ± 21.1 0.20
 Tap dominant 5.2 ± 9.4 3.0 ± 7.5 0.42
 Tap nondominant 5.1 ± 9.7 2.2 ± 10.3 0.36
 Digit forward 0.6 ± 2.1 0.6 ± 2.3 0.97
 Digit backward 1.0 ± 1.7 −0.1 ± 2.3 0.07
a

From two-sample t-test.