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Table 1 Characteristics of the sample under evaluation

From: Neuropathological findings processed by artificial neural networks (ANNs) can perfectly distinguish Alzheimer's patients from controls in the Nun Study

 

AD (n = 26)

Normal (n = 36)

Feature

 

Range

  

Range

 
 

mean

min

max

SD

mean

min

max

SD

Age at last exam

89.73

79.27

100.65

5.07

83.72

76.24

101.09

6.07

Education years

14.85

8.00

18.00

3.31

16.44

8.00

18.00

2.25

ADL

1.73

0.00

5.00

2.09

4.61

0.00

5.00

1.15

WRCL

0.23

0.00

2.00

0.59

6.58

4.00

9.00

1.27

CNPR

4.19

0.00

11.00

4.36

10.11

5.00

11.00

1.24

BOST

4.31

0.00

14.00

4.60

12.42

0.00

15.00

2.76

VRBF

2.96

0.00

14.00

3.94

14.00

8.00

23.00

3.91

MMSE

7.62

0.00

23.00

8.74

27.83

25.00

30.00

1.36

Mean NFT neocortex

22.03

1.47

61.99

16.85

0.29

0.00

4.88

0.83

Mean NFT Hippocampus

48.53

12.80

94.90

23.71

9.36

0.00

59.73

15.41

MaxNP neocortex

10.79

3.83

21.28

4.31

3.13

0.00

11.06

3.43

Max NP Hippocampus

6.02

1.70

13.62

3.66

1.45

0.00

15.74

3.09

  1. WRCL: Delayed Word Recall score; CNPR: Constructional Praxis score; BOST : Boston Naming score; VRBF: Verbal Fluency score; MMSE: Mini-Mental State Examination