Table 1.

Comparison of the demographic variables and the performance on the Brazilian Portuguese version of the BACS between patients and controls

	Variable	Patient mean (N ϝ 116)	Control mean (N ϝ 58)	p-value (x2/t-test)
Demographics	Gender – Male (%)	51.7	46.6	0.52
	Age (years)	38.5	39.1	0.78
	Education (years)	8.02	7.62	0.52
BACS subtest	Test duration (min)	40.7	39.5	0.36
	Verbal memory	28.64	39.62	<0.001
	Digit sequencing	10.98	16.79	<0.001
	Token motor	51.00	72.19	<0.001
	Verbal fluency - Semantic	14.04	19.22	<0.001
	Verbal fluency - Phonetic	17.28	25.74	<0.001
	Symbol coding	24.12	40.98	<0.001
	Tower of London	10.10	13.65	<0.001
	Global score †	0.0	2.93	<0.001

^†Global score  ϝ  principal component analysis score (116 patients).