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Table 2 Results of neuropsychological assessment.

From: Cognitive flexibility in verbal and nonverbal domains and decision making in anorexia nervosa patients: a pilot study

  

AN-R (N = 30)

HC (N = 30)

F

P(t-test)

P(UGLM)

WCST

Global score

29.40 (±28.66)

12.83 (±3.42)

21.66

0.01

0.94*

 

Perseverative errors

8.57 (±7.9)

4.97 (±1.01)

17.13

0.01

0.85

 

No-Perseverative errors

9.47 (±8.98)

4.07 (±1.96)

15.33

0.01

0.83

 

Failure

0.73 (±1.89)

0.03 (±0.18)

9.55

0.04

0.99

HSCT

Net Score

3.73 (±2.64)

2.23 (±1.36)

18.47

0.01

0.11

 

Answer C

0.13 (±0.35)

0.00

24.93

0.03

0.27§

 

Answer S

3.33 (±2.25)

2.23 (±1.36)

8.96

0.02

0.03

 

Answer U

6.53 (±2.34)

7.77 (±1.36)

13.42

0.01

0.05

IGT

Net Score

-3.60 (±19.44)

16.13 (±20.22)

0.48

0.01

0.13

 

First Fifty

-5.60 (±12.39)

7.27 (±11.82)

0.12

0.01

0.01

 

Second Fifty

2.00 (±11.00)

11.47 (±14.5)

1.09

0.01

0.48

  1. Female AN-R patients and healthy controls.
  2. Mean and (standard deviation) are provided.
  3. P (UGML): significance corrected for years of education. BMI. and BDI scores.
  4. *: BMI was significantly associated with the test score.
  5. §: BDI was significantly associated with the test score.
  6. Statistically significant differences are shown in bold under p values.
  7. WCST: Wisconsin Card Sorting Test,
  8. HSCT: Hayling Sentence Completion Task,
  9. IGT: Iowa Gambling Task,
  10. Answer C: sentence completion,
  11. Answer S: semantic-related answer,
  12. Answer U: semantic-unrelated answer.