Functional brain reorganization after spinal cord injury: Systematic review of animal and human studies

Brain Research

Volumn 1504, Issue , 2013, Pages 58-73

  Nardone, Raffaele ^a,b   Höller, Yvonne ^a   Brigo, Francesco ^b,c   Seidl, Martin ^a   Christova, Monica ^d   Bergmann, Jürgen ^a   Golaszewski, Stefan ^a   Trinka, Eugen ^a  

^a PARACELSUS MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

^b FRANZ TAPPEINER HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VERONA   (Italy)

^d MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

Brain plasticity; Cortical reorganization; Functional magnetic resonance; Spinal cord injury; Transcranial magnetic stimulation

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR;

BOLD SIGNAL; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN STEM; CEREBELLUM; DEAFFERENTATION; DENDRITIC CELL; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVOKED RESPONSE; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; FORELIMB; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GENE EXPRESSION; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; LIMB MOVEMENT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING UNIT; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE FIBER; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROPATHIC PAIN; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NONREM SLEEP; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHANTOM; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; REVIEW; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; SENSORY CORTEX; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SPINAL CORD ATROPHY; SPINAL CORD INJURY; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY; WHITE MATTER;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; HUMANS; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; SPINAL CORD INJURIES;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 84875219696     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: 18726240     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2012.12.034     Document Type: Review

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