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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Jul 31.
Published in final edited form as: Brain Imaging Behav. 2013 Dec;7(4):478–490. doi: 10.1007/s11682-013-9221-8

Table 3.

Cognitive Test Z-Scores (Means and Standard Deviations)

Measures All Patients (N=28) fTBI+Chemo (N=9) Chemo Alone (N=19) Controls (N=10)
PRE POST PRE POST PRE POST PRE POST
Attention/Executive
 DF 0.3 (0.9) 0.4 (1.0) 0.4 (0.9) 0.4 (1.0) 0.3 (0.9) 0.3 (1.0) 0.8 (0.8) 1.1 (0.6)
 DB 0.4 (0.9) 0.3 (1.0) 0.3 (0.8) 0.0 (1.0) 0.5 (0.9) 0.5 (0.9) 0.7 (1.0) 1.0 (1.2)
 BTA −0.1 (0.9) −0.4 (1.1) 0.0 (0.8) −0.3 (1.3) −0.1 (0.9) −0.4 (1.0) 0.1 (1.0) 0.4 (0.6)
 TMTA −0.1 (0.6) −0.1 (0.9) −0.2 (0.7) 0.0 (0.9) −0.1 (0.6) −0.2 (0.9) 0.3 (1.2) 1.1 (1.3)*
 TMTB −0.05 (0.9) 0.02 (0.8) −0.2 (0.8) −0.2 (0.6) 0.0 (1.0) 0.2 (0.8) 0.4 (1.4) 1.0 (1.6)
Verbal Memory
 CVLT-L 0.5 (0.6) 1.2 (0.7)* 0.4 (0.6) 1.2 (1.1)* 0.5 (0.5) 1.2 (0.8)* 1.4 (0.6) 2.0 (0.9)*
 CVLT-LD 0.5 (0.7) 0.8 (1.0) 0.4 (0.7) 0.6 (1.1) 0.6 (0.7) 0.9 (1.0)* 0.8 (0.5) 1.3 (0.5)*
 CVLT-DI 0.6 (0.8) 0.7 (0.9) 0.7 (0.4) 0.4 (0.8) 0.5 (0.9) 0.8 (0.9)* 0.8 (0.5) 0.7 (0.8)
Visual Memory
 BLT-L −0.2 (1.2) 0.2 (1.1)* 0.2 (1.5) 0.3 (1.3) −0.4 (1.1) 0.2 (1.0)* −0.3 (1.4) 0.8 (1.6)*
 BLT-LD −0.3 (1.3) −0.1 (1.3) 0.5 (1.1) 0.2 (1.6) −0.6 (1.2) −0.3 (1.1) −0.1 (1.2) 0.5 (1.0)*
 BLT-DI 0.2 (1.3) −0.1 (1.4) 0.4 (1.2) −0.1 (1.4)* 0.1 (1.3) −0.1 (1.5) −0.4 (0.3) 0.4 (1.1)*

DF= Digit Span Forward; DB= Digit Span Backward; BTA= Brief Test of Attention; TMTA= Trail Making Test A; TMTB= Trail Making Test B; CVLT-L= California Verbal Learning Test- Learning; CVLT-LD= California Verbal Learning Test- Long Delay; CVLT-DI= California Verbal Learning Test- Discrimination Index; BLT-L= Brown Location Test- Learning; BLT-LD= Brown Location Test-Long Delay; BLT-DI=Brown Location Test-Discrimination Index.

*

Indicates significant within-group difference (p < 0.05) between the pre- and post-HSCT scores on the given cognitive test.