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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 May 15.
Published in final edited form as: Prog Neuropsychopharmacol Biol Psychiatry. 2013 Nov 12;50:137–142. doi: 10.1016/j.pnpbp.2013.11.001

Table 2.

Baseline and post-treatment (post-tx) performance on tasks of sustained attention, episodic memory, and working memory (0 mg, 3 mg, 6 mg rivastigmine).

Index Placebo 0 mg (N = 16)
Rivastigmine 3 mg (N = 13)
Rivastigmine 6 mg (N = 12)
Baseline Post-tx Baseline Post-tx Baseline Post-tx
CPT-II^
Hit rate – RT^^ 51.01 ± 3.96 46.58 ± 3.63 55.62 ± 4.88 52.46 ± 3.30 45.84 ± 4.10 44.26 ± 3.90
Omissions 79.66 ± 10.93 60.08 ± 4.76 100.46 ± 15.24 61.71 ± 6.95 87.95 ± 24.12 56.82 ± 7.37
Commissions 51.99 ± 2.35 52.46 ± 3.08 56.31 ± 3.04 50.59 ± 2.54 50.35 ± 2.79 48.76 ± 2.29
HVLTR
Trials 1–3 (scaled) 33.31 ± 2.78 32.13 ± 2.02 34.23 ± 2.54 37.69 ± 2.31 38.75 ± 3.31 42.08 ± 1.87
DR (scaled) 32.38 ± 2.65 31.38 ± 2.71 39.46 ± 2.43 34.92 ± 2.69 37.75 ± 2.72 39.33 ± 3.86
N-back
Aud accuracy 0.50 ± .05 0.52 ± .05 .63 ± .03 .59 ± .03 .62 ± .05 .66 ± .03
Vis accuracy 0.43 ± .05 0.50 ± .05 .51 ± .02 .55 ± .02 .50 ± .06 .55 ± .06
N-value (mean) 1.46 ± .11 1.54 ± .10 1.51 ± .09 1.72 ± .12 1.60 ± .13 1.94 ± .11
N-value (max) 2.06 ± .19 2.06 ± .17 2.31 ± .13 2.54 ± .14 2.42 ± .23 2.67 ± .19

Values represent Mean ± SEM.

^

Higher scores are indicative of poorer performance.

^^

RT = reaction time.