Effects of somatosensory stimulation on corticomotor excitability in patients with unilateral cerebellar infarcts and healthy subjects - preliminary results

Table 1 Corticomotor excitability in patients and controls before and after active and sham sessions

Measure	Pre active	Post active	Pre sham	Post sham
*Patients*
rMT (%s.o.)	50.7 ± 10.8	51.2 ± 11.1	51.4 ± 11.8	51.3 ± 12.2
SICI (%)	85.1 ± 81.2	70.4 ± 41.4	64.2 ± 23.7	82 ± 53.8
SICF (%)	181.8 ± 107.4	166.3 ± 43.4	152.8 ± 56.4	177.9 ± 78.2
*Controls*
rMT (%s.o.)	51.5 ± 8.5	52.7 ± 8.7*	50 ± 6.7	49.2 ± 7.7
SICI (%)	49 ± 27.7	58.8 ± 24.8	38.8 ± 24.5	46.9 ± 35
SICF (%)	204.2 ± 91.1	135.2 ± 62.3	202.8 ± 128.8	155 ± 52.5

rMT: resting motor threshold; s.o.: stimulator’s output; SICI: short-interval intracortical inhibition; SICF: short-interval intracortical facilitation; pre Active and post Active, pre Sham and post Sham: before and after repetitive peripheral stimulation in the active and sham sessions (means ± standard deviations). The asterisk indicates a significant difference (p ≤ 0.05).

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