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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: Aphasiology. 2019 Sep 4;34(7):865–885. doi: 10.1080/02687038.2019.1659935

Table 1.

JB’s demographic and neuropsychological profile

Visit number (Year)
Scoring Controls m (SD) 1 (2009) 2 (2011) 3 (2013) 4 (2014) 5 (2015) 6 (2016) 7 (2018)
Age at testing 67 69 71 72 73 74 76
CDR 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.5 1 1 1
MMSE Max. 30 29.5 (0.7) 28 29 27 27 27 26 27
Visuospatial processing
 Benson complex figure - copy Max. 17 15.1 (1.7) 15 16 NC 11* 14 16 16
 VOSP Number Location Max. 10 9.1 (1.0) 10 10 NC 10 10 10 10
Episodic memory
 CVLT short delay free recall Max. 9 7.9 (1.6) 6 6 5 5 5 4* 3*
 CVLT long delay free recall Max. 9 7.3 (1.6) NC 7 5 1* 0* 2* 2*
 CVLT recognition Max. 9 8.7 (0.9) 7 9 5* 4* 5* 7 7
 Benson complex figure - delay Max. 17 10.9 (3.9) NC 8 NC 7 5 7 0*
Executive functioning
 Digit span - forward Max. 9 6.9 (1.2) 9 9 9 8 7 8 9
 Digit span - backward Max. 8 4.9 (1.1) 5 7 6 7 6 5 5
 Stroop # correct 88.3 (18.5) 84 84 NC 73 68 80 69
 Trails Max. 14 13.9 (0.9) NC 14 14 14 14 14 14
Language
 Syntax comprehension % correct 98.5 (1.8) 100 100 100 NC 96 100 100
 WAB Sequential Commands Max. 80 80 (0) 80 62 80 80 80 80 NC
 WAB Auditory Word Recognition Max. 60 60 (0) 60 60 60 60 60 60 NC
 WAB Spontaneous Speech Max. 20 20 (0) 20 20 20 20 20 20 NC
 WAB Repetition Max. 100 99.5 (0.9) 100 100 NC 100 100 100 NC
 PPVT Max. 16 15.7 (0.6) 16 14* NC 14* 13* 13* 11*
 Verbal fluency - semantic # correct 21.2 (3.6) 14 12* 9* 11* 14 9* 6*
 Verbal fluency - phonemic # correct 16.6 (6.8) 6 13 9 12 11 11 8
 BNT Max. 15 14.4 (0.7) 12* 13 13 11* 11* 6* 8*
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Note.

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= more than 2 standard deviations below the mean of controls; NC = not collected, CDR = Clinical Dementia Rating Scale; MMSE = Mini-Mental State Examination; VOSP = Visual Object and Space Perception Battery; CVLT = California Verbal Learning Test; WAB = Western Aphasia Battery; PPVT = Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test; BNT = Boston Naming Test