Table 5 Pearson correlation coefficients (Bootstrap BCa 95% confidence intervals) of correlations of cognitive test (ES > 0.30 versus HC) with symptomatic and course variables in Unipolar Depressed subjects.

From: Cognitive Impairment In Treatment-Naïve Bipolar II and Unipolar Depression

Unipolar Depressed subjects

N = 35

MADRS

HAM-A

Illness Chronicity

Number of depressive episodes

Cycling frequency

Frontal Executive Function

WCST % perseverative error

−0.06 (−0.35–0.25)

−0.10 (−0.46–0.49)

0.00 (−0.31–0.45)

−0.02 (−0.31–0.35)

−0.10 (−0.33–0.18)

Categories completed

−0.25 (−0.59–0.06)

−0.08 (−0.54–0.40)

0.21 (0.05–0.35)

−0.07 (−0.52–0.31)

−0.25 (−0.75–0.13)

Attention and mental tracking

TMT-A

0.14 (−0.16–0.42)

0.11 (−0.26–0.40)

0.16 (−0.07–0.40)

0.10 (−0.19–0.41)

0.15 (−0.01–0.38)

TMT-B

0.001 (−0.36–0.43)

0.12 (−0.23–0.47)

0.19 (−0.18–0.51)

0.05 (−0.30–0.45)

−0.05 (−0.16–0.05)

Verbal Fluency

Correct

−0.04 (−0.46–0.43)

0.35* (−0.06–0.69)

0.10 (−0.21–0.40)

−0.23 (−0.52–0.17)

−0.33 (−0.58–0.02)

Learning and memory

Wechsler Memory Scale (Visual Reproduction)

  Immediate recall

0.13 (−0.14–0.36)

−0.06 (−0.39–0.29)

−0.07 (−0.45–0.31)

−0.03 (−0.35–0.31)

0.10 (−0.11–0.33)

  Delayed recall

−0.13 (−0.36–0.11)

−0.06 (−0.41–0.28)

−0.14 (−0.41–0.12)

−0.06 (−0.41–0.28)

0.12 (−0.13–0.42)

  1. *Correlation is significant at the 0.05 level (2-tailed).