Table 1. Patients’ neuropsychological assessment.
Case G.P. | Case R.F. | Cut-off | ||
General Intelligence | ||||
Raven’s Coloured Matrices [35] | 26.1 | 31.4 | 18.9 | |
Executive Functions | ||||
Modified Card Sorting Test [36] | ||||
Criteria achieved | 6 | 3 | <6 | |
Perseverative Errors | 0 | 15.4 | 0 | |
Phonological Verbal Fluency [35] | 47.3 | 19.4 | <17.3 | |
Trail Making Test [37] | ||||
A | 48 sec. | 57 sec. | >94 sec. | |
B | 79 sec. | 143 sec. | >283 sec. | |
A–B | 32 sec. | 86 sec. | >187 sec. | |
Short-term memory | ||||
Digit span [38] | 6.3 | 5.5 | <3.7 | |
Corsi span [38] | 5.9 | 4.1 | <3.5 | |
Declarative verbal memory | ||||
15-Rey’s word list [35] | ||||
Immediate recall | 24.7 | 23.3 | <28.5 | |
15 min. delayed recall | 0 | 1.6 | <4.7 | |
Declarative visual-spatial memory | ||||
Rey’s Figure [39] | ||||
Immediate recall | 1.0 | 6.8 | <6.4 | |
Delayed recall | 0.9 | 6.8 | <6.3 | |
Visual-spatial abilities | ||||
Copy of Drawings [35] | 7.7 | 9.8 | <7.2 | |
Copy of Drawings with Landmarks [35] | 65.1 | 66.7 | <61.8 | |
Rey’s Figure Copy [39] | 31.1 | 26.1 | <23.7 |
G.P.’s and R.F.’s performance scores on tests for general intelligence, executive functions, visuo-perceptual abilities and memory functions. For the each tests, reported scores are adjusted for age, education and gender according to published normative data. References from which normative data and normality’s cut-off scores have been reported.