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Table 1 Clinical characteristics

From: Impaired verbal memory in Parkinson disease: relationship to prefrontal dysfunction and somatosensory discrimination

Disease Duration

(yrs, mean ± SD)

UPDRS -- Score

(points, mean ± SD)

SSD Proportion of right answers (95% C.I.)

 

Total

I

II

III

IV

 

7.7 ± 4.1

36.7 ± 19.3

2.6 ± 1.7

15.7 ± 7.6

16.5 ± 6.0

6.3 ± 5.4

0.79 (0.75-0.83)*

  1. UPDRS, Unified Parkinson's Disease Rating Scale (scale maximum 199 points). Subscales in roman numerals: I, Mentation, behavior and mood (subscale maximum 16); II, Activities of daily living (52); III, Motor examination (108); IV, Complications of therapy (23). Higher scores denote increasing disability. SSD, somatosensory discrimination. Comparison with normal volunteers, 0.95 (0.93-0.96, 95% C.I.), unpaired, two-tailed t-test: * p < 0.001. SSD, somatosensory discrimination for object pairs above the critical threshold difference in the major axis of approximately 2 mm
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Behavioral and Brain Functions

ISSN: 1744-9081

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