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Table 2

Cognitive parameters at baseline and at 12 months. Values are mean (SD). NS = not significant. MoCA are reported as raw scores, and in square brackets corrected for the adjustments according to age and education expressed as years of schooling-Conti et al., 2015; Santangelo et al., 2015.

	Baseline	12 months	Within groups; (12 months versus baseline); value
MoCA	24.1 (0.9) [22.01 (0.8)]	21.3 (0.2) [18.1 (0.7)]
FAB total score	8.2 (0.5)	7.1 (1.3)
Analogies	1.1 (0.2)	1.1 (0.6)
Phonemic fluency	1.2 (0.2)	0.9 (0.5)	NS
Motor series	2.1 (0.7)	1.6 (0.2)
Contrast instructions	2.1 (0.8)	1.4 (0.5)
Go/no-go	0.6 (0.5)	0.2 (0.4)
Prehension behavior	1.1 (0.9)	0.9 (0.8)	NS