Tracking trauma-induced structural and functional changes above the level of spinal cord injury

Current Opinion in Neurology

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 365-372

  Huber, Eveline ^a   Curt, Armin ^a   Freund, Patrick ^a  

^a BALGRIST UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

atrophy; cortical reorganization; quantitative MRI; spinal cord injury

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN SIZE; CAPSULA INTERNA; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASE; CEREBRAL PEDUNCLE; CHRONIC PAIN; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); CORTICAL THICKNESS (BRAIN); DEAFFERENTATION PAIN; DEMYELINATION; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DISABILITY; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; MOTOR SYSTEM; NERVE DEGENERATION; NERVE FIBER DEGENERATION; NEURAL TISSUE DEGRADATION; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROPATHIC PAIN; NON INVASIVE PROCEDURE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARAPLEGIA; PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX; PROGNOSIS; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; QUADRIPLEGIA; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVIEW; SENSORY SYSTEM; SPINAL CORD INJURY; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY; WHITE MATTER; ANIMAL; BRAIN; CONVALESCENCE; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SPINAL CORD;

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

EID: 84941207240     PISSN: 13507540     EISSN: 14736551     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/WCO.0000000000000224     Document Type: Review

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