[The effects of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) in the patients with Parkinson's disease].

The 1-Hz rTMS of 320 stimuli with an intensity of 90% of motor threshold was applied over the vertex of the skull using a round coil in a day. The effects of short-term (treated in 5 successive days) treatment was examined in 6 patients and long-term (treated in every one or two weeks for six months) treatment was examined in five. Unified Parkinson's Disease Rating Scale (UPDRS), motor evoked potential threshold (MT) and cortical silent period (SP) were recorded before and one day after the short-term treatment.