Table 1.

Neuropsychological assessment scores before the rehabilitation program and six months and one year (tests with an asterisk) after surgery.

Neuropsychological assessment	Neuropsychological tests and scores	Norm comparisons
Long-term verbal memory
Grober and Buschke test	Immediate recall in encoding phase = 15/16	25th centilea
Third recall = 7/16	− 2.29 SDb
Third cued recall = 15/16	5th–25th centile
Recognition = 15/16
Delayed recall = 7/16	− 2.50 SD
Total recall after a delay = 13/16	1st–5th centile
ESR test*	Immediate recall list 1 (superficial encoding) = 3/16	− 1.29 SD
Recognition list 1 = 10/16	− 5.37 SD
Immediate recall list 2 (profound encoding) = 5/16	− 3.15 SD
Recognition list 2 = 16/16
Recall after a delay (2 weeks) list 1 = 0/16	− 1.13 SD
Recognition list 1 = 6/16
Recall after a delay (2 weeks) list 2 = 0/16	− 1.82 SD
Recognition list 2 = 6/16	− 4.54 SD
Associative learning words — MEM III	Immediate verbal paired associates = 8/32	7c
Verbal paired associates after a delay = 3/32	8
Story recall — BEM	Immediate recall = 8.5/12	− 0.32 SD
Delayed recall = 8.5/12	− 0.03 SD
Verbal working memory — WAIS III	Digit forward = 6 digits	− 0.15 SD
Digit backward = 5 digits	0.29 SD
Long-term nonverbal memory
Doors test	(A) = 11/12	50th centile
(B) = 11/12	> 90th centile
Warrington recognition test for faces*	16/18	> 95th centile
Figure recall — BEM	Immediate recall = 10/12	0.72 SD
Delay recall = 10/12	1.09 SD
Rey figure	3-minute recall = 22/36	78th centile
Visual reproduction — MEM III*	Immediate recall = 98/104	18
Recognition = 47/48	13
Copy = 101/104	15
Executive functions
Stroop	Interference = 117 s	− 0.03 SD
Interference vs. naming = 48 s	− 0.27 SD
TMT	B = 86 s	− 0.08 SD
B–A = 67 s	0.6 SD
D2	GZ = 312	8th centile
Language
Verbal fluency	Phonological fluency = 22 words	0.18 SD
Semantic fluency = 26 words	− 0.78 SD
DO 80	80/80

^aPathological performance if < 5th centile.

^bSD = standard deviation. Pathological performance if SD < 1.6.

^cMean = 10, SD = 3. Pathological performance if < 5th centile.