Table 6.
Letter and category fluency characteristics pre- and post-DBS.
Letter fluency (F, A, S) | Category fluency (animals) | |||||
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Pre-DBS | Post-DBS | p | Pre-DBS | Post-DBS | p | |
Words: 0–15 s | 18.13 ± 6.14 | 16.07 ± 6.53 | .06a | 15.67 ± 3.75 | 14.13 ± 5.04 | .15a |
Words: 16–60 s | 27.73 ± 11.46 | 28.07 ± 15.17 | .87a | 27.20 ± 9.13 | 23.13 ± 9.09 | .04 a ∗ |
Cluster size | 3.31 ± 2.14 | 2.98 ± 1.55 | .50a | 1.27 ± 0.88 | 1.59 ± 1.01 | .29b |
Number of switches | 23.68 ± 14.29 | 21.18 ± 12.37 | .32a | 8.86 ± 6.92 | 7.27 ± 4.71 | .28a |
Total errors | 2.68 ± 2.23 | 1.64 ± 1.59 | .05a | 0.77 ± 1.06 | 0.55 ± 0.96 | .50b |
Results are given as mean ± SD (apaired t-test, bWilcoxon signed-rank, ∗p < .05).