Corticosteroid therapy in regressive autism: a retrospective study of effects on the Frequency Modulated Auditory Evoked Response (FMAER), language, and behavior

Table 1 Noise analysis of the FMAER for Time 1 and Time 2, STAR group

(a) Time one pre-treatment data: Standard vs. Plus-Minus FMAER
Electrode	Vrms	4 Hz		5 Hz		6 Hz		2, 3, 7 Hz
	T	p	T	p	T	p	T	p	p
C3	+3.84	0.0012	+3.77	0.0014	+2.97	0.0083	+2.39	0.0278	n.s
TP9	+3.24	0.0046	+3.43	0.0030	+2.26	0.0388	n.s.		n.s
(b) Time post-treatment data: Standard vs. Plus-Minus FMAER
Electrode	4 Hz	2, 3, 5, 6, 7 Hz
	T	p	p
C3	+5.96	0.0000	n.s
TP9	+5.94	0.0000	n.s
(c) Time 1 vs. Time 2: noise corrected spectral data
Electrode	4 Hz
	T	p
C3	+3.03	0.0072
TP	+3.69	0.0017

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