Title Page Effects of the Motor Cortical Quadripulse Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (qps) on the Contralateral Motor Cortex and Interhemispheric Interactions Authors Revised the Manuscript Critically for Important Intellectual Content and Affiliations

Title Page 1 Title 2 Effects of the motor cortical quadripulse transcranial magnetic stimulation (QPS) 3 on the contralateral motor cortex and interhemispheric interactions 4 5 Authors 6 Ryosuke Tsutsumi , Ritsuko Hanajima , Yasuo Terao , Yuichiro Shirota , Shinya 7 Ohminami , Takahiro Shimizu , Nobuyuki Tanaka , and Yoshikazu Ugawa 2 8 9 Author contributions 10 All the authors were involved in the conception and design of the experiments. R.T. 11 collected, analyzed and interpreted the data, and drafted the first version of the 12 manuscript. R.H., Y.T., Y.S., S.O., T.S. and N.T. assisted in data collection. All the 13 authors revised the manuscript critically for important intellectual content and 14 approved the final version. 15 16 Affiliations 17 1 Department of Neurology, Division of Neuroscience, Graduate School of Medicine, 18 The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan 19 2 Department of Neurology, School of Medicine, Fukushima Medical University, 20 Articles in PresS. J Neurophysiol (October 9, 2013). doi:10.1152/jn.00515.2013