Participants
stroke, seizures, seizure
STROKE, RECRUITMENT, NEUROLOGICAL DISEASE
People who had experienced stroke at least three months prior, were community ambulators, medically stable and over the age of 18 years were invited to participate. Recruitment occurred via advertisement in a university health clinic and distributing information to willing volunteers in a research database. Exclusion criteria were previous diagnosis of another neurological disease, recent craniotomy or neurosurgical intervention, any concurrent medication known to modify seizure threshold, presence of contraindications to transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS; such as metallic implants in the skull, history of seizures or implanted permanent pacemaker)Whilst this was a pilot study, a power calculation was performed based on an estimated effect size. To achieve a power of 80%, an allowable difference of 0.5, and population variance of 0.9 at 