Clinical Study
Preclinical Polymodal Hallucinations for 13 Years before Dementia with Lewy Bodies
Table 3
Neuropsychological test results.
| Test | BG’s raw score | Maximum score | Impairment |
| General | | | | Mini mental state examination (MMSE) | 29 | /30 | | Raven coloured progressive matrices | 19 | /36 | | Executive functioning | | | | Wisconsin card sorting test (WCST) | 118 | /128 | Impaired | Trail making test (TMT) | | | | Part A | 128 s | (mean 89.20 s) | Impaired | Part B | 378 s | (mean 211.3 s) | Impaired | Weigl test | 2 | /15 | Impaired | Cognitive estimates (bizarre errors) | 7 | /21 | Impaired | Verbal fluency (phonological one) | 30 | (mean 25.96) | | Verbal fluency (semantic one) | 17 | (mean 11.78) | | Digit span backward | 4 | | | Memory | | | | Short-term memory | | | | Digit span forward | 5 | (mean 5.2) | | Corsi’s block tapping test | 4 | (mean 3.79) | | Anterograde memory | | | | Prose memory | 7 | /16 | | Rey-Osterrieth complex figure recall | 11.5 | /36 | | Paired associated word couples | 8.5 | /22.5 | | Corsi supraspan | 6.18 | /29.16 | | Semantic memory | | | | Picture to picture matching task | 28 | /30 | | Words to words matching task | 30 | /30 | | Vocabulary test | 15 | /15 | | Visual attention | | | | Bell’s test | 33 | /35 | | Digit cancellation test | 39 | /60 | | Language | | | | Aachener aphasia test (AAT) | | | | Token test | 3 | /50 | | Repetition | 140 | /150 | | Written language | 86 | /90 | | Naming | 109 | /120 | | Comprehension | 106 | /120 | | Praxis | | | | Orofacial apraxia | 20 | /20 | | Ideomotor apraxia (right) | 72 | /72 | | Ideomotor apraxia (left) | 72 | /72 | | Visual perception | | | | Birmingham Object Recognition Battery | | | | Minimal feature view task | 25 | /25 | | Object decision task | 100 | /128 | Impaired | Associative match task | 30 | /30 | | Discrimination of scribbles | 32 | /32 | | Picture naming | 68 | /80 | | Navon’s letters | 30 | /60 | Impaired | Visuospatial and constructional functions | | | | Dot counting (VOSP) | 9 | /10 | | Copy of geometrical figures | 12 | /14 | | Rey-Osterrieth complex figure (copy) | 23.5 | /36 | Impaired | Finger localization test | 18 | /24 | |
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Impaired performances in the impairment column correspond to scores below the 5th percentile. VOSP: Visual Object Space Perception Battery.
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