Gray and White Matter Volumes and Cognitive Dysfunction in Drug-Naïve Newly Diagnosed Pediatric Epilepsy
Table 2
Comparison of neuropsychological performance between control and epilepsy patient groups.
Cognitive test domain
Control
Epilepsy
F
Cohen’s
P value
Full scale IQ
110.05 ± 18.3
106.82 ± 16.72
2.038
0.184
0.160
Verbal IQ
106.1 ± 15.77
101.39 ± 15.57
4.138
0.301
0.048
Performance IQ
109.38 ± 18.27
105.12 ± 16.93
3.286
0.242
0.076
Verbal comprehension
109.05 ± 18.15
105.27 ± 16.78
3.183
0.216
0.081
Perceptual organization
108.1 ± 14.76
104.06 ± 15.07
3.602
0.271
0.064
Freedom from distractibility
112.1 ± 18.92
107.57 ± 17.2
3.946
0.249
0.047
Processing speed
99.05 ± 15.96
94.27 ± 14.8
3.434
0.311
0.070
Stroop-color (RT, s)
13.7 ± 9.6
27.4 ± 17.5
6.071
0.947
0.018
Stroop-color (no. of errors)
0.35 ± 0.59
0.48 ± 0.77
0.534
0.190
0.469
Stroop-cw (RT, s)
24.4 ± 15.13
27.38 ± 17.47
0.033
0.182
0.857
Stroop-cw (no. of errors)
0.59 ± 0.83
1.21 ± 1.77
3.205
0.513
0.081
TMT-A (RT, s)
24.85 ± 10.11
30.02 ± 14.17
1.224
0.420
0.276
TMT-B (RT, s)
71.85 ± 32.43
92.79 ± 60.81
1.166
0.430
0.287
IQ: intelligence quotient, Stroop-cw: Stroop-color-word test, RT: response time, s: seconds, no.: number, and TMT: trail making test, data shown as mean ± standard deviation, by MANCOVA.
