Table 1.

Demographics for Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) and Healthy Elderly Controls (Mean ± Standard deviations)

	Elderly Controls	MCI
Age	66.2 ± 7.1	66.6 ± 6.9
Sex (M/F)	15/13	16/12
Years of Education	15.14 ± 2.6	15.8 ± 3.3
Mini Mental State Examination	28.71 ± 1.3	27.7 ± 1.8*
Neuropsychiatric Inventory (total score)	1.20 ± 2.2	4.9 ± 5.1**
Hamilton Depression Rating Scale	1 ± 2	3 ± 3
Total California Verbal Learning Test (CVLT) Score (Sum of Trials 1–5)	55.8 ± 10.7	40.5 ± 11.2***
Brief Visuospatial Memory Test, Revised (Sum of Trials 1–5)	20.0 ± 4.9	12.6 ± 7.1***

^*Significant between group difference (p < 0.05)

^**Significant between group difference (p < 0.005)

^***Significant between group difference (p < 0.001)

N=28 participants per group