Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) is a popular method for measuring motor cortical
excitability in healthy and clinical populations, and is often used as an outcome
measure to explore changes following an intervention. It is therefore important that
the reliability of these measures is extensively examined and demonstrated. Several
studies have sought to explore this [
1
,
2
,
3
,
4
,
5
], and have typically included assessment of reliability across 2–3 sessions for the
following measures: motor threshold (MT); TMS recruitment/input output (IO) curves;
short interval intracortical inhibition (SICI); and intracortical facilitation (ICF).
These have revealed varying degrees of reliability across the different parameters
[
[6]
]. Here we report the results of an in-depth exploration of TMS measures over an extensive
testing period of 8 sessions. We also explore the impact of different data analysis
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Publication history
Published online: August 18, 2018
Accepted:
August 16,
2018
Received:
July 26,
2018
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