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. 2015 Sep 25;9:436–449. doi: 10.1016/j.nicl.2015.09.013

Table 2.

Repeated measures ANOVA for effects of treatment and group on resting-state EEG.

Repeated measures ANOVA Factors
Interaction of factors
p-values of post-hoc analyses for:
df f p df f p Delta Theta Alpha Beta Gamma
Relative power
 DOPA-OFF vs. DOPA-ON
 Frequency-Bands 4,44 3.787 .048 4,44 3.416 .050 .006 .044
 Levodopa 1,11 4.374 .060
 DOPA-OFF vs. OFF-DBS
 Frequency-Bands 4,44 6.547 .005 4,44 8.779 .003 <.001 .027 .017
 Surgery 1,11 .297 .597
 DOPA-OFF vs. ON-DBS
 Frequency-Bands 4,44 3.831 .039 4,44 13.115 <.001 .008 <.001 .002 .006
 Surgery 1,11 .086 .775
 DOPA-OFF vs. controls
 Frequency-Bands 4,88 9.217 <.001 4,88 1.178 .317 .015
 Group 1,22 7.139 .014
 DOPA-ON vs. OFF-DBS
 Frequency-Bands 4,44 9.435 .001 4,44 3.845 .034 .018
 Surgery 1,11 3.511 .088
 DOPA-ON vs. ON-DBS
 Frequency-Bands 4,44 5.345 .013 4,44 2.625 .047 .041 .015
 Surgery 1,11 3.543 .087
 DOPA-ON vs. controls
 Frequency-Bands 4,88 12.319 <.001 4,88 .180 .842
 Group 1,22 4.454 .046
 OFF-DBS vs. ON−DBS
 Frequency-Bands 4,44 9.527 <.001 4,44 .979 .404
 DBS 1,11 .348 .567
 OFF-DBS vs. controls
 Frequency-Bands 4,88 22.819 <.001 4,88 3.335 .014 .037 .049
 Group 1,22 8.709 .007
 ON-DBS vs. controls
 Frequency-Bands 4,88 12.574 <.001 4,88 1.640 .195 .034
 Group 1,22 6.414 .019
Absolute power
 DOPA-OFF vs. DOPA-ON
 Frequency-Bands 4,44 29.383 <.001 4,44 3.423 .053 .016
 Levodopa 1,11 .600 .455
 DOPA-OFF vs. OFF-DBS
 Frequency-Bands 4,44 43.843 <.001 4,44 8.625 .005 .013 .003 .037
 Surgery 1,11 .584 .461
 DOPA-OFF vs. ON-DBS
 Frequency-Bands 4,44 30.879 <.001 4,44 14.752 <.001 .008 .008
 Surgery 1,11 2.391 .150
 DOPA-OFF vs. controls
 Frequency-Bands 4,88 71.830 <.001 4,88 1.122 .335 .050 .030 .002 .006 .003
 Group 1,22 18.627 <.001
 DOPA-ON vs. OFF-DBS
 Frequency-Bands 4,44 70.890 <.001 4,44 3.535 .049 .038
 Surgery 1,11 .045 .836
 DOPA-ON vs. ON-DBS
 Frequency-Bands 4,44 49.447 <.001 4,44 2.492 .105 .002 .020
 Surgery 1,11 11.963 .005
 DOPA-ON vs. controls
 Frequency-Bands 4,88 122.296 <.001 4,88 .192 .837 <.001 .001 <.001 .010 .005
 Group 1,22 24.134 <.001
 OFF-DBS vs. ON-DBS
 Frequency-Bands 4,44 64.007 <.001 4,44 1.108 .350 .039 .025
 DBS 1,11 4.339 .061
 OFF-DBS vs. controls
 Frequency-Bands 4,88 176.203 <.001 4,88 3.035 .021 .002 <.001 <.001 .021 .018
 Group 1,22 20.167 <.001
 ON-DBS vs. controls
 Frequency-Bands 4,88 120.963 <.001 4,88 1.423 .249 .026 0.009 .022 .044
 Group 1,22 9.359 .006

The reported values are degrees of freedom (df), F- and p-values for all the performed repeated measures ANOVA for both relative and absolute power changes. The within-subjects factors are Frequency-Bands (delta, theta, alpha, beta, gamma) and Treatment (Levodopa, Surgery, DBS). The between-subjects factor is Group (patients vs. controls). Results of the repeated measures ANOVA with p values still significant after Bonferroni corrections for the 20 separate ANOVAs are highlighted in bold (i.e., p < 0.0025), while results with p-values between ≥0.05 and ≤0.06 are reported in underlined font. If significant effects of factor Treatment or significant interactions between factor Treatment and factor Frequency-Bands were found in the ANOVA, post-hoc p-values for t-test comparisons between single frequency bands are reported. For post-hoc tests, p-values still significant after Bonferroni corrections are reported in bold (i.e., p < 0.01).