Table 1.
Demographic Information and Baseline Assessment Results for Participants with PPA
| lvPPA (N = 9) | svPPA (N = 5) | nfvPPA (N = 7) | Normative Data | |
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| Age at Baseline | 69.1 (2.3) | 65.6 (5.3) | 68.0 (12.2) | |
| Education, years | 17.4 (1.5) | 17.2 (1.8) | 15.3 (2.5) | |
| Sex | 7 F, 2 M | 2 F, 3 M | 2 F, 5 M | |
| MoCA/30 | 14.8 (5.8) a, b | 14.4 (8.2)a | 21.1 (4.5)a | 27 (2) |
| Boston Naming Test, T-Score | 10.9 (6.4) a, b | 7.7 (2.7)a, b | 30.1 (13.3)a | 50 (10) |
| P&PT, 3 Pictures/52 | 48.2 (3.3)a | 32.6 (12.3)a, b, c | 48.7 (2.4)a | 51.2 (range = 49–52) |
| Word-Picture Matching/48 | 46.9 (2.0) | 34.6 (11.7) | 47.1 (1.2) | 47.7 (0.5) |
| Northwestern Anagram Test/10 | 6.6 (1.7)a | 5.6 (3.8) | 5.1 (3.0)a | 8.5 (2.4) |
| BDAE Articulatory Agility/7 | 6.8 (0.4) | 7.0 (0) | 5.3 (1.7)d | NA |
| BDAE Phrase Length/7 | 7.0 (0) | 6.8 (0.4) | 5.3 (2.0) | NA |
| BDAE Embedded Sentences/10 | 6.6 (2.7)a | 6.4 (3.8) | 8.7 (1.4) | 9.5 (0.9) |
| BDAE Sentence Repetition/10 | 5.0 (2.3)a | 6.8 (4.0) | 6.6 (2.9)a | 9.8 (0.6) |
| Pseudoword Repetition/10 | 5.3 (3.7)a | 6.8 (3.0) | 6.0 (3.4) | 8.9 (1.0) |
| Reading, Irregular minus Regular | −2.1 (2.0)b, e | −4.8 (2.6)b, e | 0.3 (1.1) | −0.4 (0.7) |
Note. Means are reported, with SDs in parentheses, except where noted. BDAE = Boston Diagnostic Aphasia Examination; MoCA = Montreal Cognitive Assessment; NA = not available; P&PT = Pyramids and Palm Trees.
a
less than the group mean from published norms, one-sample t-test.
b
less than nfvPPA, independent-samples t-test.
c
less than lvPPA, independent-samples t-test.
d
less than svPPA, independent-samples t-test.
e
less than unimpaired controls, independent-samples t-test [controls: N = 18 (10 F, 8 M), mean age = 63.1 (9.6), mean education = 16.7 (2.2)].