Table 1

Results of neuropsychological tests

Tests (maximum score) Case 1 Case 2 Controls1-150
Year of testingOct 1992Feb 1993
No of years of education9910.8 (2.2)
HandednessRightRight
NART (Nelson, 1982; errors, 50)333310.9 (6.2)
MMSE (30)201029.2 (1.0)
Memory
Logical memory (WMS) (mean score)
 Immediate recall (23.5)2NA23.2 (7.8)
 Delayed recall (23.5)0.5NA17.0 (6.8)
Warrington recognition memory test
 Words (50)25NA47.3 (2.8)
 Faces (50)3424
Rey figure
 Copy (36)73044.6 (20.7)
 % Recall7 (100%)015.2 (7.4)
Digit span (WMS total score)114
Visuoperceptual tests
Benton line orientation (30)5Failed practice27.4 (4.0)
Object matching unusual views (40)33NA37.3 (3.1)
Object decision (64)3235
Language
Token test (36)23.5935.7 (0.5)
TROG
 Blocks passed (20)62
 Total correct (80)543378.8 (1.8)
Reading-the surface list
 Regular words (126)118 (93.6%)NA125.2 (2.7)
 Exception words (126)110 (87.3%)NA123.6 (3.1)
Reading non-words (40)272139.3 (0.9)
Writing (36)252535.3 (0.9)
Semantic battery
Category fluency (correct responses)281-151 51-151 113.7 (20.9)
Letter fluency (correct responses)14144.6 (10.2)
Naming (48)253143.6 (2.3)
Naming to description (24)9422.5 (1.4)
Word-picture matching (48)373847.4 (1.1)
Category (Picture) Sorting
 Level 1 (48)37NA48.0 (0.2)
 Level 2 (48)40NA46.9 (0.9)
 Level 3 (72)5NA68.8 (2.2)
Semantic features questions
 24 Standard items (192)139 (72.3%)NA178.0 (5.1)
Pyramids and palm trees (52)30 (57.6%)18 (34.6%)51.2 (1.4)
Raven coloured matrices (36)NA17
  • 1-150 n=24; figures in parentheses are SD;

  • 1-151 Predominant error was perserveration; WMS=Wechsler memory scale; TROG=test for the reception of grammar.

  • NA=not done.