Clinical Practice and Epidemiology in Mental Health

Table 2 Scores (mean+SD) of the neuropsychological tests of PG patients (PG) and healthy control subjects (HS).

From: Executive function abnormalities in pathological gamblers

		PG	HS
WCST	perseverant errors	x = 48 ± 3.2 T = 25 ± 4	x = 18 ± 2.1 T = 45 ± 9*
	failure to maintain	1.00 ± 0.55	0.87 ± 0.9**
	learning to learn	-8.66 ± 4	-2.41 ± 5.26*
	number of categories	3.7 ± 1.1	4.4 ± 2.2
WMR-S		97 ± 11	95 ± 10
FAS		27 ± 3	28 ± 6

* significant: p < 0.001.
** significant: p < 0.005.
WCST = Wisconsin Card Sorting test.
WMR-S = the Wechsler Memory Scale revised.
FAS test = Verbal Associative Fluency Test.

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