Research Article
Changes in the Rhythm of Speech Difference between People with Nondegenerative Mild Cognitive Impairment and with Preclinical Dementia
Table 1
Groups’ characteristic mean (SD). Mann-Whitney
test (standardised test).
| | nodMCI group () | preAD group () | Mann-Whitney (standardised test) |
| Average age | 78.73 (10.07) | 82.92 (5.02) | 385 (-1.080) | Men-women | 20 (27%)–53 (73%) | 4 (31%)–9 (69%) | | Years of schooling | 8.78 (4.13) | 8.31 (4.71) | 558 (1.048) | MMSE ponderated | 23.25 (4.63) | 24.31 (4.37) | 380 (-1.073) | Buschke’ MIS total | 4.96 (2.04) | 4.11 (1.36) | 315 (1.339) | Buschke’ MIS FreeRetr | 1.22 (1.21) | 0.33 (0.50) | 346 (2.019) | Buschke’ MIS CuedRetr | 1.83 (1.18) | 2.44 (1.01) | 282 (0.812) | Boston Denomination Test | 11.02 (4.61) | 7.50 (5.89) | 81 (-1.455) | Fluency Isaacs’ Test | 31.52 (7.14) | 32.69 (5.75) | 434 (-0.341) | Phonological fluency | 6.53 (3.03) | 6.62 (3.30) | 437 (-0.299) | Goldberg’s Depression Test | 4.73 (4.45) | 4 (3.11) | 456 (0.269) |
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