BMC Psychiatry

Table 3 Association between VEGF, neurocognition and social cognition performance

From: Neurocognition and social cognition in remitted first-episode schizophrenia: correlation with VEGF serum levels

	RS (n = 65)		NRS (n = 45)		HC (n = 58)
	r	P	r	P	r	P
HVLT-R
Total recall	−0.223	0.075	− 0.025	0.873	− 0.102	0.447
Delayed recall	−0.040	0.753	−0.049	0.749	−0.118	0.379
VFT-animals	−0.057	0.649	0.025	0.868	1.000	0.454
VFT-actions	0.067	0.594	−0.160	0.293	−0.165	0.216
TMT-part A	0.165	0.189	0.077	0.616	0.170	0.201
TMT-part B	−0.054	0.672	−0.096	0.532	0.265	0.044
DST-Forward	0.317	0.010	−0.019	0.903	0.133	0.320
DST-Backward	−0.075	0.552	−0.020	0.897	−0.101	0.452
Total	−0.085	0.500	0.008	0.985	0.051	0.703
Stroop words	0.235	0.060	0.131	0.390	0.007	0.985
Stroop colors	0.028	0.825	0.042	0.785	0.127	0.343
Stroop interference	−0.131	0.298	0.089	0.562	−0.094	0.482
CFET
Happy	−0.022	0.862	−0.102	0.506	0.133	0.321
Sad	−0.063	0.619	−0.160	0.295	−0.095	0.480
Fear	0.316	0.010	0.072	0.636	−0.194	0.145
Disgust	−0.130	0.301	0.153	0.317	−0.049	0.713
Angry	−0.235	0.060	0.127	0.407	0.270	0.040
Surprised	0.238	0.056	0.110	0.473	0.109	0.414

Abbreviations: RS remitted first-episode schizophrenia; NRS non-remitted first episode schizophrenia; HC healthy control; HVLT-R Hopkins Verbal Learning Test-Revised; VFT verbal fluency tests; TMT trail making tests; DST digit span tests; CFET Chinese Facial Emotion Test. Significant differences (P < 0.05) were marked in bold

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