Table 3

Baseline characteristics of the patient, and the means of a group of 12 normal elderly controls from whom the auditory processing norms were established, and a group of 11 patients with peripheral neuropathies from whom the timing task norms were established

	Age	WTAR	MMSE	ACE-R	Att	Mem	Flu	Lan	Vis
Patient	56	42	30	99	18	25	14	26	16
Auditory processing controls	73	42	29	95	18	24	12	26	16
Timing task controls	60	42	29	94	18	24	12	25	16

ACE-R, Addenbrooke's Cognitive Examination; Revised edition, followed by subscores in attention, memory, fluency, language, visuospatial; MMSE, mini mental state examination; WTAR, Wechsler test of adult reading.