Browse the latest research summaries in the field of neuroimaging for spinal cord injury patients and caregivers.
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Molecular Psychiatry, 2023 • March 17, 2023
The study investigated the relationship between childhood maltreatment, white matter microstructure, and posttraumatic symptoms in adults who recently experienced trauma. The researchers found that ch...
KEY FINDING: Childhood maltreatment load predicted 6-month PTSD symptoms.
AJNR Am J Neuroradiol, 2023 • May 1, 2023
This study explored the potential neural mechanism of motor imagery in the rehabilitation of pediatric patients with complete spinal cord injury using task-based fMRI. The results demonstrated that mo...
KEY FINDING: Motor-related and cognitive-related brain areas were functionally preserved in pediatric patients with complete spinal cord injury during motor imagery.
Spinal Cord, 2023 • August 1, 2023
This study found an association between the presence/absence of midsagittal tissue bridges and walking ability in veterans with cervical spinal cord injury. The presence of ventral tissue bridges show...
KEY FINDING: 71% of participants with midsagittal tissue bridges were able to walk overground.
Bioengineering, 2023 • July 20, 2023
The study aimed to identify brain regions involved in maintaining a resting state and their link to neuropathic pain (NP) severity in patients with incomplete spinal cord injury (SCI). Graph theory an...
KEY FINDING: Patients with moderate to severe neuropathic pain showed reduced node degree and fALFF (fractional Amplitude of Low Frequency Fluctuation) in the left middle frontal gyrus compared to those with mild pain and healthy controls.
Biomedicines, 2023 • August 14, 2023
This controlled pilot study described rearrangements of brain functional connectivity in acquired spasticity after a short course of anti-spastic epidural cervical SCS therapy and the association of t...
KEY FINDING: Higher functional connectivity of the brainstem to the right premotor cortex and changes in functional connectivity between cortical motor areas.
PeerJ, 2023 • October 9, 2023
This study explored brain structural and functional changes in SCI patients using fMRI, revealing gray matter atrophy in frontal, temporal, and insular cortices. Functional connectivity analysis showe...
KEY FINDING: SCI patients showed decreased GMV in the frontal, temporal, and insular cortices compared to healthy controls.
Biomedicines, 2023 • September 22, 2023
This study aimed to investigate the relationships between the different levels and degrees of incomplete spinal cord injury (iSCI) evaluated with magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and the results of no...
KEY FINDING: The study revealed consistent positive correlations in iSCI patients between the bilateral decrease of the spinal half injury MRI scores and a decrease of the transcranially-evoked MEP amplitudes.
Medicine, 2023 • December 1, 2023
This case report details an instance of contrast-induced spinal cord injury (CIS) occurring after cerebral angiography with a nonionic contrast agent, Ioversol. The patient initially experienced contr...
KEY FINDING: A patient developed contrast-induced spinal cord injury (CIS) following cerebral angiography using a nonionic contrast agent (Ioversol). This is a rare occurrence, as CIS is more commonly associated with ionic contrast agents.
bioRxiv preprint, 2024 • May 1, 2024
The study investigates the relationship between body size parameters and brain and spinal cord MRI metrics in 267 healthy adults. Results indicate that body height correlates with brain gray matter vo...
KEY FINDING: Body height correlated moderately with brain gray matter volume and spinal cord white matter area.
Spinal Cord, 2024 • June 1, 2024
This study investigates structural changes in the cervical spinal cord of children with TLSCI and their relationship with sensorimotor function, aiming to identify objective imaging biomarkers. The st...
KEY FINDING: CSA and LRW in the AIS A/B group were significantly lower than those in the TD group and the AIS C/D group, indicating spinal cord atrophy is related to the severity of the injury.