TABLE 1.
Demographic and neuropsychometric data for the control and bvFTD participants
| Controls (N = 22) | bvFTD (N = 19) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mean | SD | Mean | SD | P value | |
| Sex (F : M) | 9 : 13 | 5 : 14 | 0.326 | ||
| Age | 64.2 | 5.7 | 63.7 | 6.2 | 0.821 |
| MMSE (/30) | 29.5 | 0.7 | 24.8 | 4.0 | < 0.001 |
| CDR® plus NACC FTLD sum of boxes | 0.80 | 0.8 | 10.3 | 3.7 | < 0.001 |
| WMS‐R Digit Span Forwards (/12) | 9.0 | 2.2 | 6.8 | 0.5 | 0.005 |
| WMS‐R Digit Span Backwards (/12) | 8.3 | 2.6 | 4.8 | 1.9 | < 0.001 |
| Phonemic Fluency (1 min) | 15.1 | 5.7 | 8.2 | 4.9 | < 0.001 |
| D‐KEFS Color‐Word Interference Test (seconds) | 56.5 | 17.3 | 93.3 | 36.4 | < 0.001 |
| Trail Making Test Part A (seconds) | 30.3 | 11.2 | 52.0 | 29.1 | 0.001 |
| Trail Making Test Part B (seconds) | 69.2 | 24.7 | 171.5 | 90.9 | < 0.001 |
| British Picture Vocabulary Scale (/150) | 147.9 | 1.3 | 124.9 | 23.2 | < 0.001 |
Abbreviation: SD, standard deviation; F, Female; M, Male; MMSE, Mini Mental State Examination; CDR® plus NACC FTLD, CDR® Dementia Staging Instrument with the National Alzheimer Coordinating Centre Frontotemporal Lobar Degeneration component; WMS‐R, Wechsler Memory Scale Revised; D‐KEFS, Delis Kaplan Executive System.