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. 2012 Jan 1;35(1):69–79. doi: 10.5665/sleep.1588

Table 2.

Intra-individual differences in spindle frequency among sites

Patient Anterior sites
Posterior sites
t-test
Location Mean spindles frequency (Hz) ± SD Location Mean spindles frequency (Hz) ± SD
    2 MMFC+MLFC+PLFC+ ACG 11.8 ± 0.4 OC 13 ± 0.1 P < 0.0005
    3 MLFC 12.2 ± 0.3 MPC 13.4 ± 0.1 P < 0.005
    5 AMFC+ALFC+OFC 11.5 ± 0.1 OC 13.3 ± 0.3 P < 0.005
    12 MLFC 11.9 ± 0.2 MPC+LPC 13 ± 0.4 P < 0.00005
    13 ALFC 11.3 ± 0.1 LPC 13.2 ± 0.3 P < 0.005

In each of the 5 patients recorded in both anterior and posterior sites, spindle frequency was significantly higher in pooled parieto-occipital sites than in between pooled frontal sites. Abbreviations for locations are the same as in Table 1