J. P. Brasil-Neto

TL;DR: Trans transcranial magnetic stimulation is used to study the role of plastic changes of the human motor system in the acquisition of new fine motor skills and the effect of increased hand use without specific skill learning in subjects who played the piano at will for 2 h each day but who were not taught the five-finger exercise.

TL;DR: The effects of coil orientation, stimulus intensity, and shape of the induced current pulse on the amplitudes of motor evoked potentials in the left abductor pollicis brevis of 10 normal adults who had transcranial magnetic stimulation are studied.

TL;DR: The electromyographic activity in several contralateral muscles showed that trains of rTMS applied to the motor cortex induced a spread of cortical excitability, which probably constituted an early epileptogenic effect ofrTMS.

TL;DR: There was an inverse relationship between %M recruited by transcranial magnetic stimuli in different subjects and the variability in MEP amplitude and latency, and Latency variability was less pronounced than amplitude variability.

TL;DR: The results suggest that the cortical representation of the reading finger in proficient braille readers is enlarged at the expense of the representation of other fingers.