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Table 2 Cognitive measures of the DLB and control groups

From: The insula, a grey matter of tastes: a volumetric MRI study in dementia with Lewy bodies

Cognitive measures

DLB group (n = 23)

Control group (n = 20)

Student’s t test

MMSE score

25.9 (2.6)

28.5 (1.0)

t = − 4.25, P < 0.001

FCSRT (score/48)

39.5 (6.8)

45.9 (3.04)

t = − 3.74, P < 0.001

DMS-48 (score/48)

41.9 (7.5)

47.1 (1.1)

t = − 3.00, P = 0.002

FAB (score/18)

14.9 (2.6)

16.9 (1.1)

t = − 2.93, P = 0.003

Letter fluency

16.5 (6.7)

23.3 (6.2)

t = − 3.33, P < 0.001

TMT B (s)

172.0 (80.1)

92.4 (26.6)

t = 4.10, P < 0.001

TMT A (s)

98.2 (105.6)

43.7 (11.6)

t = 2.23, P = 0.02

Digit symbol (score/19)

7.8 (3.7)

11.4 (2.8)

t = − 3.42, P < 0.001

Lexical fluency

22.8 (7.7)

36.4 (6.5)

t = − 5.95, P < 0.001

ROCF (score/36)

28.5 (9.4)

33.9 (2.0)

t = − 2.39, P = 0.01

  1. DLB dementia with Lewy bodies, MMSE Mini-Mental State Examination, FCSRT Free and Cued Selective Reminding Test (sum of total recall TR1, TR2, TR3), DMS-48 Delayed Matching to Sample-48 items (Set2), FAB Frontal Assessment Battery, TMT Trail Making Test, ROCF Rey-Osterrieth Complex Figure test