Table 3. Neuropsychological test performance for patients with stable or improved SM versus those with worsened SM 1 year postoperatively.

	Group A (n = 28)	Group B (n = 20)
	Mean (SD)	Mean (SD)	p
Objective memory at T1
Verbal IQ	98.61 (10.26)	93.3 (11.87)	0.105
Performance IQ	103.50 (14.15)	99.45 (13.82)	0.329
Full scale IQ	101.07 (11.26)	96.00 (12.59)	0.150
Auditory immediate memory	94.68 (13.53)	90.35 (13.32)	0.277
Visual immediate memory	97.03 (14.75)	95.50 (13.50)	0.714
Auditory delayed memory	94.11 (16.78)	89.05 (16.74)	0.312
Visual delayed memory	96.79 (16.05)	96.75 (14.98)	0.994
CVLT-2 total learning	50.32 (13.06)	43.00 (8.48)	0.049
CVLT-2 long delay free recall	−0.38 (1.44)	−1.32 (1.26)	0.035
ROCF test delay recall	−0.572 (0.90)	−1.174 (0.86)	0.030
Boston Naming Test	40.071 (10.69)	38.75 (12.17)	0.692
Animal fluency	41.39 (9.67)	35.53 (10.29)	0.065
Lexical fluency	41.04 (10.03)	40.06(9.51)	0.746
Objective memory at T2
Verbal IQ	100.71 (11.89)	97.14 (14.01)	0.450
Performance IQ	107.56 (9.10)	106.43 (12.21)	0.767
Full scale IQ	103.67 (10.13)	101.86 (12.97)	0.660
Auditory immediate memory	97.00 (15.40)	89.21 (13.43)	0.149
Visual immediate memory	99.65 (16.74)	94.64 (15.12)	0.394
Auditory delayed memory	98.53 (16.45)	90.36 (12.94)	0.141
Visual delayed memory	97.29 (16.17)	96.21 (15.87)	0.853
CVLT-2 total learning	50.06 (15.06)	43.28 (10.31)	0.161
CVLT-2 long delay free recall	−0.413 (1.56)	−1.107 (1.33)	0.194
ROCF test delay recall	−0.802 (0.88)	−0.535 (0.91)	0.417
Boston naming test	41.29 (9.26)	40.71 (17.26)	0.208
Animal fluency	43.18 (11.73)	40.64 (10.03)	0.528
Lexical fluency	43.82 (8.76)	42.64 (7.07)	0.688

IQ: intelligence quotient; CVLT-2: California Verbal Learning Test-2nd Edition; ROCF: Rey-Osterrieth complex figure.