Table 1. Demographic and clinical characteristics of the study participants.

Demographic	ALS	bvFTD	Controls	F test
Number of subjects	17	25	37
Sex (male:female)	12:5	16:9	19:18	n/s
Age, years	58.10±9.43	61.83±11.70	64.05±5.10	n/s
Education, years	13.68±3.21	12.23±2.76	13.21±2.43
Disease duration, years	1.95±5.75	4.34±2.49	n/a	n/s
ACE-R total score (out of 100)	86.82±9.88	71.88±21.28	94.16±3.78	*
CBI-R total score (out of 100)	21.14±13.48	38.30±21.95	3.67±3.78	*

Data are mean±SD values. F values indicate significant differences between groups, ^*p<0.001. Tukey post-hoc tests were used to compare differences between group pairs.

ACE-R: Addenbroke's Cognitive Examination Revised, ALS: amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, bvFTD: behavioral-variant frontotemporal dementia, CBI-R: Cambridge Behavioural Inventory Revised, n/s: not significant.