Table 3.

Description and comparison of the sample populations (Complementary Study).

	AD	MC	W	p
	Mean/SD	Mean/SD
Age	86.1/5.08	88.8/2.92	15.500	0.298
Education	2.3/1.06	2.66/1.21	20.500	0.675
GDS	3.25/3.15	2.16/0.75	22.500	0.894
MMSE*	12.5/5.15	25.8/1.9	0.500	0.003
TEMPau*	3.33/1.11	8.89/1.07	0.000	0.002
BEC 96 Total*	37.1/12.8	81.8/7.2	0.000	0.002

^*Significant differences, Mann-Whitney U-Test.

BEC 96 (Signoret, 1988).

GDS, Geriatric Depression Scale (Yesavage et al., 1983).

TEMPau, Autobiographical memory assessment task (Piolino et al., 2000).

AD, Alzheimer disease; MC, Matched Controls.