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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Mar 8.
Published in final edited form as: J Neuropsychiatry Clin Neurosci. 2009 Summer;21(3):328–331. doi: 10.1176/appi.neuropsych.21.3.328

TABLE 1. Mean (±SD) for P50 and BIS-11 Variables and Outcomes of Statistical Analysis for the Healthy Comparison (HC), Antisocial Personality Disorder (ASPD), and Adult-Onset Antisocial Behavior (AAB) Groups.

Variable HC (n=15) ASPD (n=9) AAB (n=7) F (df=2, 28) Post-Hoc Test
Gating
 Ratio (%) 39.50 (25.45) 84.41 (38.41) 43.18 (38.41) F=4.83, p=0.02 HC<ASPD (p=0.01)
 ΔS1S2 (μV)1 1.98 (1.41) 0.70 (1.41) 1.50 (1.80) F=2.99, p=0.07 HC>ASPD (p=0.04)
Amplitude (μV1,2 F=2.23, p=0.13
 S1 3.24 (1.91) 2.50 (1.33) 2.40 (1.55)
 S2 1.26 (1.11) 1.80 (1.28) 0.90 (0.83)
Latency (ms)2,3 F=5.57, p=0.01 HC<ASPD (p=0.05)
 S1 59.73 (12.67) 67.11 (11.66) 62.14 (11.36)
 S2 56.31 (11.23) 69.11 (9.19) 57.00 (13.06)
BIS-11
 Total1 55.67 (6.03) 67.78 (7.79) 67.43 (16.64) F=6.51, p<0.01 HC<ASPD/AAB (p<0.03)
 Non-planning 20.40 (2.38) 27.78 (4.87) 25.14 (7.47) F=7.59, p<0.01 HC<ASPD/AAB (p<0.06)
 Motor1 20.80 (2.60) 24.00 (1.87) 26.00 (5.94) F=6.81, p<0.01 HC<ASPD/AAB (p<0.01)
 Attentional 14.47 (3.72) 16.00 (3.54) 16.29 (4.50) F=0.73, p=0.49

ΔS1S2=P50 difference

1

Data log transformed prior to analysis

2

Result presented in row is stimulus × group interaction

3

n=13 for comparison subjects for S2 latency with total suppression of P50 (df=2, 26)