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Table 1 Participant characteristics

From: Prefrontal dysfunction in pediatric Tourette’s disorder as measured by near-infrared spectroscopy

 

TD

Control

p-value

 

mean (SD)

mean (SD)

 

Number [sex ratio: M:F]

10 [10:0]

10 [10:0]

1.00

Age (years)

9.20 (2.25)

9.50 (2.12)

0.76

Age of onset (years)

7.40 (1.84)

  

Duration of illness (months)

20.50 (8.24)

  

FIQ (WISC-III)

99.80 (15.32)

97.30 (9.90)

0.67

YGTSS

18.00 (6.75)

  

SCWC-1

26.80 (11.14)

42.70 (9.78)

0.003

SCWC-2

26.10 (10.21)

40.20 (8.77)

0.004

SCWC-3

27.20 (12.74)

37.70 (8.11)

0.027

  1. TD, Tourette’s disorder; M, male; F, female; FIQ (WISC-III), Full scale IQ score on the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-Third Edition; YGTSS, Yale Global Tic Severity Scale; SCWC-1, ‘Stroop color-word task number of correct answers first time’; SCWC-2, ‘Stroop color-word task number of correct answers second time’; SCWC-3, ‘Stroop color-word task number of correct answers third time’.