Table 1.

Demographic and clinical characteristics of PD patients and healthy controls. Data are means ± standard deviation. UPDRS III: Unified Parkinson’s Disease Rating Scale part III (motor symptoms).

	PD	HC
N	6	7
Sex (M/F)	4/2	4/3
Age (years)	55.5 ± 4.23	52.3 ± 6.75
Disease Duration (months)	120 ± 20.82
UPDRS III in STN-DBS-OFF	56.0 ± 5.3
UPDRS III in STN-DBS-ON *	24.0 ± 6.2

* UPDRS III examined 60 min after DBS was switched on.