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Table 1 Comparison between essential tremor patients (group I) and healthy control subjects (group II) regarding the non-tremorgenic manifestations

From: Essential tremor: what is beyond the oscillatory monosymptomatic illness?

 

Group I

Group II

t test

t value

p value

Age

62.59 ± 4.62

62.02 ± 6.70

0.392

0.696

MoCA

25.33 ± 1.76

26.75 ± 1.57

3.192

0.002a

AADLs

25.50 ± 4.17

28.70 ± 3.35

9.382

0.003a

MADRS

16.31 ± 8.43

10.36 ± 5.11

9.135

0.004a

Threshold

7.92 ± 1.18

9.58 ± 1.67

4.539

0.001a

Identification

10.69 ± 1.24

12.17 ± 1.17

4.616

0.001a

Discrimination

10.75 ± 1.23

11.79 ± 1.44

3.001

0.004a

TDI total score

29.50 ± 3.11

33.50 ± 3.58

4.595

0.001a

MMN (amplitude)

0.93 ± 0.22

1.55 ± 0.38

7.041

< 0.0001a

MMN (latency)

272.27 ± 42.03

181.54 ± 14.19

10.052

< 0.0001a

SOM ratio

93.19 ± 15.24

97.87 ± 1.22

1.463

0.149

VIS ratio

79.17 ± 2.70

89.09 ± 2.45

14.266

< 0.0001a

VEST ratio

48.19 ± 4.42

67.39 ± 2.98

18.312

< 0.0001a

CST (mean FA)

0.59 ± 0.06

0.71 ± 0.07

7.170

< 0.0001a

CST (density)

370.03 ± 31.23

370.03 ± 31.23

1.503

0.138

MCP (mean FA)

0.56 ± 0.05

0.71 ± 0.07

8.716

< 0.0001a

MCP (density)

604.35 ± 38.88

591.22 ± 34.59

1.307

0.197

TCT (mean FA)

0.47 ± 0.06

0.69 ± 0.07

26.259

< 0.0001a

TCC (density)

680.29 ± 72.93

676.57 ± 75.20

0.035

0.852

  1. AADLs advanced activities of daily living scale, CST corticospinal tract, FA fractional anisotropy, MADRS Montgomery–Åsberg Depression Rating Scale, MCP middle cerebellar peduncle, MMN mismatch negativity, MoCA Montreal cognitive assessment scale, SOM somatosensory, TCC thalamo-cortical connectivity, TDI threshold, discrimination, identification, VEST vestibular, VIS visual
  2. aSignificant