Epilepsy Research and Treatment / 2011 / Article / Tab 2 / Research Article
Executive Functions in Chronic Mesial Temporal Lobe Epilepsy Table 2 Medians for demographic information and scores in neuropsychological background tests as a function of seizure lateralization.
Max. LMTLE patients (
) RMTLE patients (
)
valueMdn Mdn Age (years) 46.0 35.5 .076 Education (years) 10.0 10.0 .075 Age at disease onset (years) 20.5 17.0 — Disease duration (years) 11.5 14.0 — Vocabulary [29 ] 37 27.0 29.0 .057 Numeracy [30 , 31 ] 11 8.5* 7.5* .014 Mental complex calculation [32 ] 24 11.5 9.0 .034 Verbal memory (MGT) [33 ] Learning (5. trial) 16 13.0 15.0 — Immediate free recall 16 9.5
13.0 — Delayed free recall 16 12.0 14.0 — Recognition (corrected score) 16 15.0 14.0 — Nonverbal memory, immediate free recall (VVM) [34 ] 31 17.5 17.0 — Anxiety (HADS-D) [35 ] 21 5.5 7.0 — Depression (HADS-D) [35 ] 21 4.5 2.0 — Digit span forward (WMS-R) [36 ] 12 7.0 6.0 .079 Digit span backward (WMS-R) [36 ] 12 5.5 5.5 .047 Psychomotor speed (TMT-A) [37 ] 29.5 24.5 .691 Cognitive flexibility (TMT-B) [37 ] 78.0 73.5 .018 Categorical verbal fluency (RWT) [38 ] 22.5 27.0 .056 Phonological verbal fluency (RWT) [38 ] 5.0
8.0 .012 Set-shifting (RWT) [38 ] 13.5 15.0 .011 Categorization (WCST) [39 ] Completed categories 5 3.5 2.0* .027 Perseverative errors 10.0 10.0 .032 Go-NoGo task (adapted from [40 ]) Correct Go-trials 100 98.9 98.9 .059 Correct NoGo-trials 100 83.3 98.6 .878 Planning (Planungstest) [41 ] Total number of moves 35.5 36.0 .029 Errors 0.0 0.0 —
Note: Group comparisons between LMTLE patients, RMTLE patients, and healthy controls were carried out by means of Kruskal-Wallis
-test. Significance was set at
.
