Skip to main content
. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: Mult Scler. 2015 Jun 23;21(14):1794–1801. doi: 10.1177/1352458515576983

Table 1.

Mean (standard deviation) of demographics and neuropsychological performance

MS
n = 57
Control
n = 17
pa

Demographics
Sex (% male) 18 (31.5) 4 (23.5)
Age (years) 44.6 (8.4) 42.7 (10.1) 0.449
Education (years) 15.1 (2.4) 15.6 (1.5) 0.454
Disease characteristics
MSFC 0.15 (0.64) 0.73 (0.24) 4×10−4
Median EDSS (range) 2.5 (1–6.5)
Median disease duration 11 (1–33)
Behavioral measures
CVLT 46.7 (11.2) 57.7 (9.4) 4×10−4
BVMT 45.9 (13.3) 56.6 (7.9) 0.002
SDMT 51.5 (13.6) 67.4 (11.6) 1×10−4
PASAT 45.6 (12.3) 53.5 (6.2) 0.019
Volumetric measures
WM voxels, scaled 651,875 (55,528) 692,857 (41,212) 0.0063
GM voxels, scaled 759,762 (42,178) 804,744 (39,493) 2×10−4

P-values for behavioral measures are based on demographically-corrected scores (see text for details);

a

P-values for unpaired Student’s t-tests, all values survive FDR correction;

BVMT=Brief Visuospatial Memory Test-Revised; CVLT=California Verbal Learning Test-II; PASAT=Paced Auditory Serial Addition Test; SDMT=Symbol Digit Modalities Test; WM=white matter; GM=grey matter.