Relating brain damage to brain plasticity in patients with multiple sclerosis

Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 581-593

  Tomassini, Valentina ^a,b,c   Johansen Berg, Heidi ^a   Jbabdi, Saad ^a   Wise, Richard G ^d   Pozzilli, Carlo ^b   Palace, Jacqueline ^a   Matthews, Paul M ^a,e,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^c CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^e HAMMERSMITH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^f IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

brain plasticity; damage; functional MRI; multiple sclerosis; recovery; rehabilitation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN DAMAGE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GRAY MATTER; GRIP STRENGTH; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSTERIOR CINGULATE; REHABILITATION MEDICINE; SENSORIMOTOR CORTEX; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUOMOTOR COORDINATION;

ADULT; ANISOTROPY; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; DISABILITY EVALUATION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR SKILLS; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; OXYGEN; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PRACTICE (PSYCHOLOGY); PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; STATISTICS AS TOPIC;

EID: 84863670579     PISSN: 15459683     EISSN: 15526844     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1545968311433208     Document Type: Article

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