Table 2 Clinical assessment of the participants

From: Brain responses to different types of salience in antipsychotic naïve first episode psychosis: An fMRI study

Variable

Controls (n = 34)

FEP (n = 13)

Group statistics

  
 

Mean

SD

Mean

SD

t

df

p

PANSS positive

0.97

0.2

2.2

0.7

10.1

45

 < 0.001

P1

0.97

0.2

3.2

1.6

7.86

45

 < 0.001

P2

0.97

0.2

1.3

0.9

2.22

45

 < 0.001

P3

0.97

0.2

3.4

1.6

9.06

45

 < 0.001

SANS score

0.09

0.3

0.3

0.6

1.6

45

0.116

BDI

3.4

3.9

27.8

10.7

11.1

41

 < 0.001

  1. FEP first episode psychosis patients. BDI Beck’s depression inventory. PANSS positive and negative syndrome scale for schizophrenia. P1 delusions, P2 conceptual disorganisation (thought disorder), P3 hallucinatory behaviour. SANS scale for assessment of negative symptoms. Bold values indicate significant differences
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