Fig. 5

Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) -induced modulation of Motor evoked potentials (MEP). A MEP under wakefulness B MEP under anesthesia. “W” denotes Wakefulness and “A” denotes Anesthesia. Dashed lines denote MEP before rTMS and solid lines denote MEP after MEP C Peak-to-peak MEP amplitudes D Increase in peak-to-peak MEP amplitudes. Anesthesia inhibited the rTMS-induced modulation of MEP. The data were expressed as mean ± standard error of the mean (SEM). *P < 0.05, **P < 0.01, ***P < 0.001, n.s.: no significance. The data satisfies the normality