Table 1.

Correlations of Repeatable Battery for the Assessment of Neuropsychological Status (RBANS) scores with age,educational levels and hippocampal volumes among 38 healthy males 65 to 75 years of age

Measures	age		years of schooling		volume of the left hippocampus		volume of the right hippocampus		difference in volumes (right-left) of the two hippocampi
	r	p	r	p	r	p	r	p	r	p
Immediate memory	-0.05	0.748	0.30	0.069	0.36	0.025	0.30	0.068	-0.13	0.423
Visuospatial and constructional ability	-0.12	0.480	0.47	0.003	0.26	0.110	0.19	0.246	-0.15	0.366
Language	0.30	0.068	0.30	0.071	0.01	0.950	-0.01	0.935	-0.06	0.738
Attention	0.11	0.497	0.31	0.056	0.21	0.207	0.18	0.282	-0.06	0.714
Delayed memory	-0.15	0.371	0.32	0.054	0.59	<0.001	0.56	<0.001	-0.05	0.777
Total score	0.00	0.990	0.43	0.007	0.36	0.026	0.31	0.057	-0.10	0.541