Epilepsy Research and Treatment / 2011 / Article / Tab 3 / Research Article
Executive Functions in Chronic Mesial Temporal Lobe Epilepsy Table 3 Medians for demographic information and scores in neuropsychological background tests as a function of structural abnormality.
Max. MTLE-HC patients (
) MTLE-CA patients (
)
valueMdn Mdn Age (years) 47.0 34.0 .017 Education (years) 9.5 10.0 .001 Age at disease onset (years) 17.5 15.0 — Disease duration (years) 30.5 6.0 — Vocabulary [29 ] 37 25.0 29.0 .030 Numeracy [30 , 31 ] 11 7.0
8.0
.059 Mental complex calculation [32 ] 24 9.0 12.5 .310 Verbal memory (MGT) [33 ] Learning (5. trial) 16 12.0 14.0 — Immediate free recall 16 6.5* 13.0 — Delayed free recall 16 8.5* 14.0 — Recognition (corrected score) 16 12.0* 16.0 — Nonverbal memory, immediate free recall (VVM) [34 ] 31 16.0 21.0 — Anxiety (HADS-D) [35 ] 21 9.5 6.0 — Depression (HADS-D) [35 ] 21 3.5 2.0 — Digit span forward (WMS-R) [36 ] 12 6.0 7.0 .128 Digit span backward (WMS-R) [36 ] 12 5.0 6.0 .031 Psychomotor speed (TMT-A) [37 ] 33.0 27.0 .866 Cognitive flexibility (TMT-B) [37 ] 80.5 71.0 .078 Categorical verbal fluency (RWT) [38 ] 20.0 27.0 .326 Phonological verbal fluency (RWT) [38 ] 8.0 8.0 .746 Set-shifting (RWT) [38 ] 13.0 14.0 .187 Categorization (WCST) [39 ] Completed categories 5 1.0* 4.0 .014 Perseverative errors 17.5* 9.0 .047 Go-NoGo task (adapted from [40 ]) Correct Go-trials 100 98.3 98.9 .646 Correct NoGo-trials 100 73.3* 86.7 .205 Planning (Planungstest) [41 ] Total number of moves 36.0 36.0 .416 Errors 0.0 0.0 —
Note: Group comparisons between MTLE-HC patients, MTLE-CA patients, and healthy controls were carried out on residualized dependent variables by means of Kruskal-Wallis
-test. Significance was set at
.
