Gray and White Matter Volumes and Cognitive Dysfunction in Drug-Naïve Newly Diagnosed Pediatric Epilepsy
Table 3
Comparison of neuropsychological performance between generalized and focal epilepsy groups.
Cognitive test domain
Generalized epilepsy
Focal epilepsy
F
Cohen’s
P value
Full scale IQ
103.78 ± 17.97
104.57 ± 15.44
0.004
0.047
0.952
Verbal IQ
105.89 ± 17.05
98.1 ± 14.81
4.593
0.488
0.042
Performance IQ
105.22 ± 19.04
102.13 ± 15.54
0.753
0.178
0.394
Verbal comprehension
100.89 ± 19.37
102.63 ± 15.51
0.079
0.099
0.781
Perceptual organization
108.11 ± 16.68
101.23 ± 14.88
3.945
0.435
0.058
Freedom from distractibility
101 ± 14.07
104.4 ± 15.44
0.348
0.230
0.561
Processing speed
95.11 ± 10.87
90.93 ± 13.19
0.968
0.346
0.334
Stroop-color (RT, s)
16.2 ± 6.16
15.98 ± 5.43
2.584
0.038
0.125
Stroop-color (errors)
0.35 ± 0.59
0.48 ± 0.77
0.294
0.190
0.594
Stroop-cw (RT, s)
24.4 ± 15.13
27.38 ± 17.47
1.022
0.182
0.325
Stroop-cw (errors)
0.5 ± 0.83
1.21 ± 1.77
1.753
0.514
0.202
TMT-A (RT, s)
24.85 ± 10.11
30.02 ± 14.17
0.054
0.420
0.818
TMT-B (RT, s)
71.85 ± 32.43
92.79 ± 60.81
2.277
0.430
0.149
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.
