Different Apathy Profile in Behavioral Variant of Frontotemporal Dementia and Alzheimer's Disease: A Preliminary Investigation

Table 1

Comparison of neuropsychological performances of the two groups. Statistically significant differences are indicated in bold; confounders included in the logistic regression analysis are reported in italics. MMSE: Mini-Mental Sate examination; CDR: Clinical Dementia Rating Scale; RAVLT: Rey’s Auditory Verbal Learning Test; MFTC: Multiple Features Targets Cancellation; ROCF: Rey-Osterrieth Complex Figure.

	bvFTD (𝑁=28)		AD (𝑁=20)
	Mean	SD	Mean	SD	|𝑧|	𝑝
MMSE	19.07	8.789	17.85	4.368	1.445	0.148
CDR	1.78	0.815	1.48	0.659	1.183	0.237
RAVLT immediate recall	20.59	12.858	17.45	7.702	1.005	0.315
RAVLT delayed recall	3.59	3.456	1.05	1.468	2.567	0.010
RAVLT recognition accuracy	77.37	22.047	72.00	16.403	1.616	0.106
RAVLT false alarms	8.89	8.916	11.10	7.137	1.352	0.176
Phonological verbal fluency	15.64	15.887	14.00	10.141	0.367	0.714
Semantic verbal fluency	6.79	6.373	9.00	4.634	1.849	0.065
Raven’s colored matrices	18.18	7.822	15.94	7.630	1.340	0.180
Cube copy	2.65	1.285	1.90	1.242	2.034	0.042
Cube copy with landmarks	17.26	5.708	15.50	7.416	0.524	0.600
MFTC accuracy	80.71	24.424	73.33	19.538	1.401	0.161
MFTC time of execution	125.79	72.971	170.03	57.792	2.130	0.033
MFTC false alarms	5.96	9.796	9.65	12.874	1.174	0.241
Frontal assessment battery	7.88	6.124	8.30	2.726	0.199	0.842
Nouns denomination	17.85	8.198	23.01	4.382	2.180	0.029
Verbs denomination	13.52	7.223	16.95	5.562	1.492	0.136
ROCF copy	21.84	13.433	16.15	9.887	1.726	0.084
ROCF delayed reproduction	6.25	5.958	4.44	3.808	1.067	0.286
Stroop: interference/time	65.37	52.970	84.76	43.329	1.290	0.197
Stroop: interference/errors	10.72	11.353	15.11	10.907	1.418	0.156