Table 3.

Comparison of cognitive performance between two patients receiving rTMS and sham treatment.

	Baseline	4 week treatment	4 week follow-up
RBANS-immediate memory
Active rTMS	78.95 ± 2.78	89.65 ± 2.52	95.70 ± 2.54
Sham rTMS	78.29 ± 3.02	81.65 ± 2.74	87.59 ± 2.76
F	0.026	4.629	4.684
P	0.874	0.038	0.037
RBANS-visuospatial
Active rTMS	81.75 ± 2.29	85.95 ± 2.23	89.35 ± 2.21
Sham rTMS	82.24 ± 2.49	85.94 ± 2.41	89.24 ± 2.39
F	0.021	0	0.001
P	0.887	0.998	0.972
RBANS-language
Active rTMS	88.55 ± 1.69	93.15 ± 1.53	96.20 ± 1.23
Sham rTMS	87.10 ± 1.78	91.01 ± 1.62	94.73 ± 1.29
F	0.35	0.928	0.716
P	0.558	0.342	0.403
RBANS-attention
Active rTMS	88.15 ± 1.41	94.30 ± 1.24	97.30 ± 0.92
Sham rTMS	86.88 ± 1.53	90.82 ± 1.34	93.65 ± 1.00
F	0.37	3.637	7.273
P	0.574	0.065	0.011
RBANS-delayed memory
Active rTMS	86.30 ± 1.75	89.50 ± 1.69	94.80 ± 1.46
Sham rTMS	82.47 ± 1.89	86.35 ± 1.84	91.77 ± 1.58
F	2.214	1.59	1.994
P	0.146	0.216	0.167

rTMS, repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation; RBANS, repeatable battery for the assessment of neuropsychological status.