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Table 1 Demographic and clinical features of aMCI and AD patients and healthy controls. Data are expressed as mean ± standard deviation

From: Emotional prosody recognition is impaired in Alzheimer’s disease

Demographic and clinical features

MCI patients (n = 43)

AD patients (n = 36)

Normal participants (n = 23)

p-value (group difference)

Age

74.47 ± 6.09

74.47 ± 6.54

67.04 ± 6.67

0.00 *

Gender

26F/17M

25F/11M

17F/6M

0.836

Years of education

15.49 ± 2.83

13.47 ± 3.56

16.65 ± 2.37

0.00*

MMSE

26.60 ± 2.57

22.75 ± 2.55

29.52 ± 0.73

0.00 *

  1. MMSE Mini Mental State Examination, M male, F female
  2. *Statistically significant