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Table 1 Pain, motor threshold (MT) intensity, and baseline performance

From: Stimulation frequency determines the distribution of language positive cortical regions during navigated transcranial magnetic brain stimulation

  

5 Hz/10 pulses

7 Hz/10 pulses

p

  

Mean ± SD

 

Pain (VAS)

Convexity

1.7 ± 1.6

2.2 ± 1.6

p = 0.432

Temporal

5.4 ± 2.2

5.0 ± 2.0

p = 0.540

Motor threshold intensity (% stimulator output)

33.1 ± 4.8

33.5 ± 5.1

p = 0.796

Representative correct baseline pictures (out of a dataset of 100 items)

Object naming

92.3 ± 3.4

p < 0.0001

Pseudoword reading

96.0 ± 2.2

Verb generation

89.5 ± 4.3

Action naming

89.2 ± 5.6

  1. Stimulation parameters used in the study, including pain score according to the visual analogue scale (VAS); RMT = resting motor threshold (% stimulator output); and representative correct baseline pictures. Data is presented for a stimulation train frequency of 5 Hz and of 7 Hz and as mean ± standard deviation (SD).