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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 May 11.
Published in final edited form as: Acta Neuropathol. 2016 Jan 25;131(4):571–585. doi: 10.1007/s00401-016-1537-1

Table 5.

Comparisons of clinical data between stages 1–3 cases without TDP-43 and stage 4 cases with TDP-43 at examination closest to onset

Insula Ventral striatum Basal forebrain

Yes (N=33) No (N=94) Yes (N=32) No (N=94) Yes (N=23) No (N=94)

MMSE 23 (11, 29) 25 (7, 30) 23 (11, 29) 25 (7, 30) 23 (17, 29) 25 (7, 30)
Total UPDRS 2 (0, 10) 1 (0, 28) 2 (0, 10) 1 (0, 28) 2 (0, 10) 1 (0, 28)
Boston Naming Test 42 (10, 59) 46 (2, 59) 37 (10, 52)** 46 (2, 59) 36 (10, 58)** 46 (2, 59)
WAIS-Block Design 11 (0, 35) 14 (0, 36) 10 (0, 29) 14 (0, 36) 10 (2, 20)* 14 (0, 36)
COWAT total raw 24 (9, 54) 28 (5, 66) 21 (9, 48)* 28 (5, 66) 21 (9, 33)** 28 (5, 66)
AVLT Delayed Recall 0 (0, 6) 1 (0, 9) 0 (0, 4)* 1 (0, 9) 0 (0, 2)** 1 (0, 9)
NPI-Q Total Severity 3 (0, 14) 2 (0, 11) 2 (0, 14) 2 (0, 11) 2 (1, 14) 2 (0, 11)

MMSE = Mini-Mental State Examination; UPDRS = Unified Parkinson’s Disease Rating Scale; WAIS = Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale; COWAT = Control Oral Word Association Test; AVLT = Auditory Verbal Learning Test; NPI-Q = brief questionnaire version of the Neuropsychiatric Inventory.

Data shown as median (range). P-values are from Wilcoxon Rank Sum test.

*

p < 0.05,

**

p < 0.01,

****

p < 0.001.