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. 2005 Aug 25;568(Pt 2):699–711. doi: 10.1113/jphysiol.2005.089722

Table 2.

Movement-related modulations of beta subthalamic rhythms

Low beta High beta


b p m r b P m r
AM (a.u.)
  Before levodopa Mean 0.74 0.74 0.71 0.84 0.37 0.29 0.21 0.44
s.d. 0.34 0.38 0.49 0.34 0.30 0.28 0.36 0.32
  After levodopa Mean 0.42 0.38 0.33 0.51 0.31 0.24 0.13 0.36
s.d. 0.37 0.34 0.37 0.39 0.35 0.28 0.27 0.37
FM (Hz)
  Before levodopa Mean 17.11 17.18 17.45 16.89 26.43 26.49 26.59 25.95
s.d. 1.46 1.47 1.41 1.29 1.12 1.33 1.64 1.00
  After levodopa Mean 17.07 17.1 16.68 17.06 26.55 26.68 26.81 26.48
s.d. 1.58 1.47 1.25 1.73 1.13 1.19 1.24 1.18

The table reports means and standard deviations (s.d.) of the amplitude modulations (AM, in log power arbitrary units, a.u.) and the frequency modulations (FM, in Hz) for the low-beta and the high-beta poles, of all nuclei recorded before (n = 14) and after (n = 14 nuclei) levodopa administration. Entries for each nucleus were obtained by averaging the pole values of individual nuclei in four movement-related time windows: b= baseline (4 s to 2 s before movement onset), p= pre-movement (0.5 s to 0 s before movement onset), m= movement (0 s to 1 s after movement onset), r= recovery (2 s to 3 s after movement onset). The full movement-related AM/FM curves corresponding to this table are shown in Fig. 3.