Table 1.

Clinical characteristics.

	Controls mean ± std dev	Patients mean ± std dev	Effect size d	p-Value
N	20	27
Age	34.1 ± 9.4	37.9 ± 8.2	−0.43	0.15
Female/male	18/2	23/4		0.63
Years of education	16.3 ± .4	16.2 ± .5	0.21	0.92
EDSS	N/A	2.5 ± 1.1
Lesion volume (cm3)	N/A	7.1 ± 2.0
Beck depression-II	3.5 ± 7.4	9.4 ± 8.9	−0.66	0.02
PASAT raw score	45 ± 12	46 ± 12	−0.08	0.41
SDMT raw score	61 ± 10	53 ± 11	0.71	0.02
BSRT learning raw score	46 ± 11	46 ± 11	−0.02	0.94
7/24 learning raw score	32 ± 3	30 ± 5	0.33	0.23
Composite cognitive score	0 ± 0.77	−0.34 ± 0.78	0.43	0.14
Attention/executiveZ-score	0 ± 0.62	−0.28 ± 0.44	0.48	0.11
Processing Speed Z-score	0 ± 0.90	−0.34 ± 0.86	0.39	0.20
Verbal memory Z-score	0 ± 0.91	−0.18 ± 0.44	0.19	0.52
Spatial memory Z-score	0 ± 0.77	−0.50 ± 1.1	0.52	0.16

Bold values indicate significance at p < 0.05.