Browse the latest research summaries in the field of neuroimaging for spinal cord injury patients and caregivers.
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medRxiv preprint, 2024 • June 4, 2024
The study examined differences in CVR amplitude and delays between SCI and AB individuals using fNIRS during a hypercapnic breath-holding task. It reports significantly delayed CVR in the right inferi...
KEY FINDING: Individuals with SCI showed significantly delayed CVR in the right inferior parietal lobe compared to able-bodied controls.
CNS Neurosci Ther, 2024 • June 3, 2024
This study investigated the changes in cortical thickness and subcortical gray matter structures in children with complete spinal cord injury (CSCI) compared to healthy controls (HCs). The results sho...
KEY FINDING: Pediatric CSCI patients showed decreased cortical thickness in the right precentral gyrus, superior temporal gyrus, and posterior segment of the lateral sulcus compared to healthy controls.
Front. Neuroimaging, 2024 • July 15, 2024
This review emphasizes the scarcity of research on brain mapping in children with birth motor deficits of non-brain origin, highlighting a gap in the application of brain stimulation therapy despite s...
KEY FINDING: Individuals with birth-related motor conditions exhibit unique central adaptation features compared to those with acquired conditions, such as nonsomatotopic presentation of involved muscles in the sensorimotor cortex.
bioRxiv preprint, 2025 • January 27, 2025
This study introduces EPISeg, a deep learning-based method for automated spinal cord segmentation on gradient-echo EPI images, commonly used in fMRI. EPISeg addresses challenges related to heterogeneo...
KEY FINDING: EPISeg significantly improves spinal cord segmentation quality compared to existing methods.
The Journal of Spinal Cord Medicine, 2021 • July 1, 2020
This pilot study aimed to identify differences in resting cerebral blood flow between individuals with spinal cord injury (SCI)-related neuropathic pain (NP) and healthy controls using arterial spin l...
KEY FINDING: Individuals with SCI-related neuropathic pain exhibited significantly reduced resting blood flow in the cerebellum (specifically Crus I/II), the rostral ventromedial medulla, and the left insular cortex compared to healthy controls.
Brain, 2021 • April 27, 2021
The study investigates microstructural and metabolic alterations in the brains of patients at the onset of their first neurological episode suggestive of demyelination using neurite orientation disper...
KEY FINDING: Patients showed increased axonal dispersion in normal-appearing white matter, especially in the corpus callosum, along with axonal degeneration and sodium accumulation.
J NeuroEngineering Rehabil, 2021 • June 1, 2021
This paper proposes an approach to study EEG-HS in different patient populations, such as stroke, spinal cord injury (SCI), Parkinson’s disease (PD), and traumatic brain injury (TBI). The authors addr...
KEY FINDING: Inter-brain synchronization may not exclusively depend on the precise execution of a particular movement, suggesting that self-determined engagement during gestural imitation is more informative.
Arch Phys Med Rehabil, 2022 • January 1, 2022
This retrospective study examined the predictive relationship between the integrity of specific spinal cord tracts and sensorimotor function in individuals with SCI. The study found that LCST integrit...
KEY FINDING: The integrity of the lateral corticospinal tract (LCST) showed a significant predictive relationship with lower extremity motor function at discharge.
Nat Protoc, 2021 • October 1, 2021
The study presents a prospectively harmonized consensus protocol, called the spine generic protocol, for acquiring high-quality qMRI of the human cervical SC at 3 Tesla (T) across GE, Philips and Siem...
KEY FINDING: The spine generic protocol provides a harmonized approach for acquiring high-quality qMRI of the human cervical spinal cord at 3T across the three main MRI manufacturers.
Scientific Data, 2021 • August 16, 2021
This study introduces a standardized spine generic quantitative MRI protocol and associated datasets acquired across multiple centers and MRI manufacturers. The datasets, consisting of single-subject ...
KEY FINDING: The spine generic protocol demonstrated high reproducibility across different MRI sites and manufacturers, with an average inter-site coefficient of variation of less than 5% for most metrics.