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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: Stroke. 2016 Nov 10;47(12):3041–3044. doi: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.116.014418

Table 2.

Cognitive and neuropsychiatric markers in pre-symptomatic and symptomatic mutation carriers versus controls.

Cognitive domain Cognitive tests Controls (N=33)
(SD; range)
Pre-symptomatic mutation
carriers (N=12)
(SD; range)
Symptomatic mutation
carriers (N=15)
(SD; range)
Global cognitive function MMSE (mean points) 29.4 (0.7; 27 – 30) 29.8 (0.6; 28 – 30) 26.7 (3.8; 16 – 30)**
Memory WMS (mean Memory quotient) 124.9 (10.8; 105 – 143) 121.6 (11.5; 103 – 137) 110.5 (24.9; 72 – 143)*
HVLT immediate recall 28.2 (4.3; 16 – 35) 28.0 (2.8; 24 – 32) 21.4 (7.5; 7 – 31)*
HVLT delayed recall 10.4 (2.3; 6 – 19) 9.8 (1.7; 7 – 12) 6.8 (3.7; 0 – 12)**
Psychomotor speed TMT A (mean sec) 30.3 (10.7; 15 – 53) 26.6 (8.8; 16 – 44) 54.8 (21.7; 29 – 96)**
Executive function TMT B (mean sec) 59.9 (22.5; 30 – 105) 54.5 (13.4; 39 – 85) 161.2 (127.1; 67 – 540)**
DSST (mean nr correct symbols) 77.1 (15.5; 46 – 110) 84.0 (11.8; 62 – 101) 47.3 (17.3; 18 – 79)**
Clock drawing (median points) 3.0 (0.2; 2 – 3) 3.0 (0.5; 2 – 3) 2.0 (0.6; 1 – 3)**
Language Letter fluency (mean nr of correct words) 33.9 (9.1; 13 – 50) 32.9 (11.8; 19 – 54) 23.5 (7.9; 12 – 38)*
Category fluency (mean nr of correct words) 22.2 (5.6; 14 – 40) 23.0 (6.0; 14 – 32) 15.3 (5.5; 3 – 23) *
BNT (mean nr of correct items) 28.6 (1.0; 27 – 30) 28.3 (1.1; 26 – 30) 23.0 (6.6; 4 – 29)**
Apathy Apathy scale of Starkstein (mean points) 9.4 (3.7; 2 – 15) 8.9 (5.2; 2 – 20) 8.9 (4.9; 2 – 18)
Anxiety HADS subscale anxiety (mean points) 3.5 (2.7; 0 – 10) 4.0 (2.8; 0 – 9) 5.5 (3.8; 0 – 13)*
Depression HADS subscale depression (mean points) 1.9 (2.3; 0 – 9) 1.8 (3.0; 0 – 10) 4.1 (3.2; 0 – 11) *
*

=p<0.05 and

**

=p<0.001; controls vs pre-symptomatic carriers and controls vs symptomatic carriers