Ickmans K, Clarys P, Nijs J, Meeus M, Aerenhouts D, Zinzen E, Aelbrecht S, Meersdom G, Lambrecht L, Pattyn N. Association between cognitive performance, physical fitness, and physical activity level in women with chronic fatigue syndrome. J Rehabil Res

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Figure 2. Stroop task performance. (a) Difference
in reaction times between patients with chronic
fatigue syndrome (CFS) and healthy inactive
control participants in congruent, incongruent,
and no word conditions, and difference in
reaction times in incongruent and congruent and
in incongruent and no word conditions in both
patients with CFS and controls indicating Stroop
interference effect of same magnitude. Difference
in reaction times between patients with CFS and
controls in (b) priming tasks and (c) nouns with
different levels of emotional load (category,
neutral, and sleep conditions). (d) Difference in
accuracy between congruent and incongruent
conditions in both patients with CFS and
controls. (e) Comparisons between incongruent,
priming negative inverse, and priming negative
simple conditions for accuracy. (f) Difference in
accuracy between patients with CFS and controls
for sleep-related words, and difference in
accuracy between category and sleep stimuli in
controls. All comparisons were performed using 3
2 analysis of variance with condition as
within-subject factor and group as
between-subject factor. Additional analyses
between accuracy scores of both groups in nouns
with different levels of emotional load
(category, neutral, and sleep conditions) were
conducted using Mann-Whitney U test. Error bars
indicate standard error. Marginally statistically
significant effects p lt 0.05, p ? 0.01, p
0.05. CI confidence interval, ME myalgic
encephalomyelitis.
Ickmans K, Clarys P, Nijs J, Meeus M, Aerenhouts
D, Zinzen E, Aelbrecht S, Meersdom G, Lambrecht
L, Pattyn N. Association between cognitive
performance, physical fitness, and physical
activity level in women with chronic fatigue
syndrome. J Rehabil Res Dev. 201350(6)795810. h
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