Table 1.
Demographic information for dysexecutive patients
| Patient | Age | Education | Neuroimaging and aetiology | Rule shift | Action programme | Key search | Temporal judgement | Zoo map | Six elements | BADS total | Standardized score | Classification |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 40 | 14 | L frontotemporal damage following external insult by sharp object | 2* | 3* | 0* | 1* | 1 | 0* | 7 | 38 | Impaired |
| 2 | 38 | 15 | Bilateral ischaemic encephalopathy of basal ganglia following hypoglycaemia | 3 | 3* | 1 | 1* | 1 | 0* | 9 | 49 | Impaired |
| 3 | 64 | Dip | Hypoxic episode following cardiac arrest | 4 | 2* | 0* | 1* | 1 | 1* | 9 | 53 | Impaired |
| 4 | 25 | 18 | Road traffic accident (RTA) | 3 | 4 | 0* | 2 | 1 | 1* | 11 | 59 | Impaired |
| 5 | 52 | 18 | Bilateral anterior cerebral artery infarcts | 1* | 3* | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 11 | 63 | Impaired |
| 6 | 22 | 16 | R frontal + L parietal damage from RTA | 4 | 3* | 1 | 3 | 0* | 1* | 12 | 65 | Impaired |
| 7 | 21 | 18 | Diffuse axonal injury with small intraventricular changes following RTA | 4 | 4 | 0* | 2 | 2 | 1* | 13 | 70 | Borderline |
| 8 | 22 | 16 | L frontal–parietal tumour resection | 4 | 0* | 4 | 3 | 1 | 1* | 13 | 70 | Borderline |
| 9 | 45 | 16 | L temporal lobectomy following temporal lobe abscess | 3 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2* | 13 | 73 | Borderline |
| 10 | 59 | 16 | L+R frontal–parietal damage from RTA | 2* | 4 | 2 | 3 | 0* | 3 | 14 | 78 | Borderline |
| 11 | 25 | 15 | Enlargement of R lateral ventricle + contusions in the cerebellum and cerebrum following RTA | 1* | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 1* | 15 | 81 | Low average |
| 12 | 28 | 14 | White‐matter damage in L PFC + R parietal contusion following violent assault | 4 | 4 | 4 | 0* | 2 | 2* | 16 | 86 | Low average |
| Control mean (SD) | 3.72 (0.65) | 3.79 (0.41) | 2.77 (1.23) | 2.34 (0.81) | 2.28 (1.36) | 3.41 (0.91) |
Patients are arranged in order of Behavioural Assessment of Dysexecutive Syndrome scores (BADS; Wilson et al., 1996). All subtests and control data are from the BADS. Each subtest has a score out of 4. Weak performance, at least 1.5 SD below the expected performance given age and educational status, is marked with *. Education = age of leaving education. Dip = postgraduate diploma. Neuroimaging summaries are based on written reports of clinical scans, except in the case of JG, CR, and GR where they were based on visual inspection of CT scans.