Syntactic Comprehension in Patients with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis

<table class="table-group" id="tab4"><tr><td><table class="table"><tr><td class="thead-hr" colspan="2"><hr/></td></tr><tr class="thead"><td align="left"> </td><td align="center">Pearson’s correlation</td></tr><tr><td class="thead-hr" colspan="2"><hr/></td></tr><tr><td align="left">Age</td><td align="center"> </td></tr><tr><td align="left"> STA score</td><td align="center">−0.390</td></tr><tr><td align="left"> FAB score</td><td align="center">−0.311</td></tr><tr><td align="left"> RCPM score</td><td align="center">−0.258</td></tr><tr><td align="left">Disease duration</td><td align="center"> </td></tr><tr><td align="left"> STA score</td><td align="center">0.199</td></tr><tr><td align="left"> FAB score</td><td align="center">0.123</td></tr><tr><td align="left"> RCPM score</td><td align="center">0.210</td></tr><tr><td align="left">ALSFRS-R1 score</td><td align="center"> </td></tr><tr><td align="left"> STA score</td><td align="center">0.168</td></tr><tr><td align="left"> FAB score</td><td align="center">0.258</td></tr><tr><td align="left"> RCPM score</td><td align="center">0.087</td></tr><tr><td align="left">ALSFRS-R5a score</td><td align="center"> </td></tr><tr><td align="left"> STA score</td><td align="center">−0.332</td></tr><tr><td align="left"> FAB score</td><td align="center">−0.348</td></tr><tr><td align="left"> RCPM score</td><td align="center">−0.251</td></tr><tr class="table-tr"><td colspan="2"><hr class="tbody-hr"/></td></tr></table></td></tr><tr class="table-fn"><td>ALS FRS-R: revised amyotrophic lateral sclerosis functional rating scale; STA: Syntax Test for Aphasia; FAB: Frontal Assessment Battery; RCPM: Raven’s Coloured Progressive Matrices.       <br/></td></tr></table>

Correlation between demographic variables and results of STA, FAB, and RCPM.

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Table 4: Syntactic Comprehension in Patients with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis 