Table 1.
Variable | Patients (n = 23, 15 male) | Healthy Controls (n = 23, 15 male) | ||||
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Mean | SD | Range | Mean | SD | Range | |
Age (years) | 31.1 | 10.4 | 18–53 | 30.5 | 8.2 | 21–51 |
Handedness (LQ)a | 70.7 | 34.7 | 0–100 | 70.3 | 23.0 | 5–100 |
Education (years)b | 13.6 | 2.3 | 10–18 | 15.2 | 1.5 | 12–18 |
Onset age (years) | 22.8c | 7.7 | 8–43 | |||
Illness duration (years) | 9.3c | 10.5 | 0–33 | |||
Total BPRS | 39.4c | 9.6 | 24–64 | |||
PANSS general | 33.9c | 8.9 | 17–58 | |||
PANSS positive | 18.2c | 5.7 | 10–29 | |||
PANSS negative | 14.4c | 4.7 | 7–23 |
BPRS: brief psychiatric rating scale; PANSS: positive and negative syndrome scale
Laterality quotient64 can vary between −100.0 (completely left-handed) and +100.0 (completely right-handed).
The available data for 20 patients (13 male) and 21 healthy controls (14 male) yielded a marginally significant group main effect, F[1,40] = 3.48, p = .07.
n = 21.