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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2006 Oct 1.
Published in final edited form as: Cereb Cortex. 2005 Dec 15;16(10):1462–1473. doi: 10.1093/cercor/bhj087

Table 4.

Performance measures of thalamotomy patients and thalamotomy control subjects

Performance measure Thalamotomy patients Thalamotomy controls Change from controls (%) All ET patients All controls Change from controls (%)
Group size 5 7 — 24 26 —
Peak speed (m/s) 0.26 (0.04) 0.34 (0.06) −23.4** (−23.8**) 0.28 (0.05) 0.32 (0.05) −12** (10)
Path length (cm) 10.43 (1.40) 10.49 (1.13) −0.5 (22.7) 10.65 (1.35) 10.18 (0.82) 5** (65***)
Movement duration (s) 1.52 (0.36) 1.23 (0.22) 24.1* (65.0) 1.54 (0.34) 1.14 (0.18) 35***** (85***)
ae at 300 ms (°) 0.23 (6.14) −0.08 (5.18) −388 (12.9) 0.52 (6.70) −0.15 (4.64) −441 (44*****)
Arm compliance (°) 16.83 16.66 1.0 16.61 15.59 7

Note: This table follows the same convention as Table 2. All ET patients—combining DBS and thalamotomy patients; all controls—combining the respective control subject groups.

*

P < 0.05,

**

P < 0.01,

***

P < 0.001,

****

P < 0.0001,

*****

P < 0.00001.