Disability, atrophy and cortical reorganization following spinal cord injury

Brain

Volumn 134, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1610-1622

  Freund, Patrick ^a,b,c   Weiskopf, Nikolaus ^a   Ward, Nick S ^a   Hutton, Chloe ^a   Gall, Angela ^b   Ciccarelli, Olga ^a   Craggs, Michael ^b   Friston, Karl ^a   Thompson, Alan J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c SWISS PARAPLEGIC RESEARCH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

atrophy; cortical reorganization; disability; spinal cord injury

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN DISEASE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CERVICAL SPINAL CORD INJURY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICAL REORGANIZATION; DISABILITY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; MALE; NERVE STIMULATION; PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORIMOTOR CORTEX; SPINAL CORD ATROPHY; TIBIAL NERVE; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 79957804043     PISSN: 00068950     EISSN: 14602156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brain/awr093     Document Type: Article

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