Structural plasticity of remote cortical brain regions is determined by connectivity to the primary lesion in subcortical stroke

Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism

Volumn 35, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 1507-1514

  Cheng, Bastian ^a   Schulz, Robert ^a   Bönstrup, Marlene ^a   Hummel, Friedhelm C ^a   Sedlacik, Jan ^a   Fiehler, Jens ^a   Gerloff, Christian ^a   Thomalla, Götz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

Author keywords

acute stroke; brain imaging; diffusion tensor imaging; MRI; neurodegeneration

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; BRAIN REGION; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONNECTOME; CORTICAL THICKNESS (BRAIN); FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; MALE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE FIBER DEGENERATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PARESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL MODEL; SUPERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; TRACTOGRAPHY; WHITE MATTER; CLINICAL TRIAL; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RADIOGRAPHY; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; STROKE;

EID: 84940722049     PISSN: 0271678X     EISSN: 15597016     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/jcbfm.2015.74     Document Type: Article

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