Table 2
Senile plaque and neurofibrillary tangle counts in four brain regions
| +Aware (n = 23) | −Aware (n = 18) | +Aware (n = 13)* | −Aware (n = 13)* | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Values are means (SD). | |||||
| *Subset matched for dementia severity. | |||||
| †p = 0.015; ‡p = 0.002; §p = 0.051. | |||||
| EC, entorhinal cortex; L, left; NFT, neurofibrillary tangle; PRO, prosubiculum of the hippocampus; R, right; SMF, superior and middle frontal gyri; ST, superior temporal isocortex; SP, senile plaque; +Aware, without anosognosia; −Aware, with anosognosia. | |||||
| SMF | R SP | 23 (19) | 21 (13) | 20 (11) | 22 (14) |
| R NFT | 6 (7) | 8 (7) | 7 (6) | 7 (6) | |
| L SP | 22 (17) | 20 (12) | 19 (11) | 22 (13) | |
| L NFT | 7 (7) | 9 (8) | 9 (7) | 9 (9) | |
| ST | R SP | 20 (17) | 17 (12) | 18 (8) | 15 (9) |
| R NFT | 9 (10) | 11 (10) | 10 (9) | 10 (10) | |
| L SP | 22 (21) | 23 (22) | 20 (16) | 25 (25) | |
| L NFT | 9 (9) | 12 (10) | 10 (9) | 11 (10) | |
| PRO | R SP | 7 (4)† | 11 (6)† | 6 (4)‡ | 12 (4)‡ |
| R NFT | 19 (16) | 24 (15) | 22 (19) | 28 (14) | |
| L SP | 9 (4) | 12 (6) | 8 (4)§ | 12 (6)§ | |
| L NFT | 23 (17) | 28 (16) | 25 (20) | 33 (15) | |
| EC | R SP | 16 (9) | 17 (10) | 16 (11) | 16 (11) |
| R NFT | 15 (8) | 16 (9) | 15 (8) | 15 (9) | |
| L SP | 15 (11) | 15 (10) | 16 (14) | 12 (7) | |
| L NFT | 15 (8) | 16 (8) | 15 (8) | 16 (7) | |
