| |
Parkinson’s disease patients with apathy
(n = 22) |
Parkinson’s disease patients without apathy
(n = 39) |
Healthy Controls
(n=19) |
Statistic (ANOVA or t-test) |
| |
Mean (SD) |
F; p |
| Verbal fluency, (FAS; adjusted for age, sex and education) |
35.27
(10.46) |
41.62
(15.13) |
53.31
(12.42) |
F = 7.41;
p=0.001
###‡ |
Attention
(Serial 7’s) |
3.36
(1.79) |
4.34
(0.76) |
5.16
(0.69) |
F=19.21;
p < .001
### ‡‡‡ |
| mWCST2 Total |
34.05
(6.10) |
34.15
(10.52) |
38.63
(8.41) |
3.15
p = 0.21 |
| mWCST2: perseverative errors |
4.86
(5.65) |
4.15
(6.02) |
1.53
(2.76) |
3.44
p = 0.18 |
| mWCST2: non-perseverative errors |
19.19
(8.57) |
18.15
(10.94) |
16.42
(10.70) |
.64
p = 0.73 |
| 5 minute recall |
2.18
(1.01) |
2.51
(0.85) |
2.74
(0.99) |
4.43
p = 0.11 |
n-back
(correct responses) |
13.27
(3.21) |
16.09
(3.32) |
18.89
(3.31) |
F = 13.38
p< 0.001
### ‡‡ |
| TMT3-B-TMT-A, (seconds) |
132.36
(85.86) |
83.0
(57.27) |
62.16
(31.50) |
21.16
p< .001
† ### ‡‡‡ |
Post-hoc Scheffe or Mann Whitney U for two-group comparison: