Table 1. Demographics and neuropsychological data for healthy controls and frontotemporal dementia subtypes.
| Controls | bvFTD | SD | PNFA | F | p | Post hoc | |
| Sex (M/F) | 16/11 | 13/5 | 7/4 | 6/5 | 1.2† | ns | |
| Age (years) | 64.3 (3.7) | 63.8 (8.2) | 62.4 (9.3) | 64.8 (10.0) | 0.2 | ns | |
| Education (years) | 13.6 (2.1) | 11.9 (3.3) | 13.3 (3.4) | 11.9 (3.2) | 1.8 | ns | |
| Disease Duration (months) | n/a | 46.8 (26.6) | 65.2 (28.2) | 27.3 (8.4) | 7.0 | * | PNFA < SD |
| ACE-R | 95.7 (3.3) | 75.4 (12.4) | 53.9 (31.9) | 72.0 (18.5) | 36.7 | ** | Patients < Controls; SD < bvFTD, PNFA |
| Digits forwards (max span)# | 7.0 (1.3) | 6.1 (1.1) | 6.0 (1.3) | 4.4 (1.2) | 11.5 | ** | PNFA < Controls |
| Trails A | 31.0 (11.1) | 54.4 (18.1) | 37.9 (19.0) | 48.5 (16.8) | 9.2 | ** | bvFTD, PNFA < Controls |
| RCF Copy | 33.2 (3.0) | 28.5 (5.6) | 32.7 (4.3) | 29.7 (5.7) | 4.4 | ** | bvFTD < Controls |
| Naming# | 27.0 (2.3) | 21.2 (5.2) | 5.0 (2.7) | 19.7 (6.8) | 72.1 | ** | Patients < Controls; SD < bvFTD, PNFA |
| Face Matching§ | 36.1 (4.0) | 28.5 (7.9) | 33.6 (7.0) | 32.4 (5.5) | 5.486 | * | bvFTD < Controls |
Note. ** p<.01; * p<.05; ns p>.05. Values are: Mean (standard deviation). n/a = not applicable. Abbreviations: bvFTD = behavioural-variant frontotemporal dementia, SD = semantic dementia, PNFA = progressive nonfluent aphasia, ACE-R = Addenbrooke’s Cognitive Examination-Revised, RCF = Rey Complex Figure. † = χ2. # Score missing for one PNFA participant. § Scores missing for two bvFTD and two PNFA participants.