Browse the latest research summaries in the field of neuroimaging for spinal cord injury patients and caregivers.
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Sensors, 2012 • January 31, 2012
This review paper summarizes the state-of-the-art of brain-computer interfaces (BCIs), focusing on the different stages of a BCI system: signal acquisition, preprocessing, feature extraction, classifi...
KEY FINDING: Electroencephalography (EEG) is the most widely used neuroimaging modality in BCIs because of its high temporal resolution, low cost, and portability.
The Neuroscientist, 2012 • April 1, 2012
Traumatic SCI induces anatomical and functional changes in both the spinal cord and brain. Neuroimaging can detect anatomical changes in the spinal cord, such as cyst formation and atrophy, and in the...
KEY FINDING: Spinal cord atrophy, measured by a decline in cross-sectional area, correlates with the degree of clinical impairment and hand function in chronic SCI patients.
CNS Neuroscience & Therapeutics, 2014 • April 1, 2014
This letter to the editor presents a case of superficial siderosis (SS) in a 66-year-old man, linked to a thoracic disc herniation and associated dural injury. The patient exhibited symptoms including...
KEY FINDING: The patient presented with leg weakness, gait impairment, hearing loss, and urinary incontinence.
The Open Neuroimaging Journal, 2016 • October 16, 2016
The study investigates the use of manganese-enhanced MRI (MEMRI) as a non-invasive tool to assess the severity of spinal cord injury (SCI) in rat models. MEMRI results correlated strongly with SCI sev...
KEY FINDING: MEMRI ratios were significantly lower in transection and hemisection groups compared to controls, indicating reduced neuronal activity in injured spinal cords.
Neural Regeneration Research, 2017 • December 1, 2017
This study investigated the use of the RESOLVE sequence in diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) to improve the resolution of spinal cord microstructure imaging in healthy adults. The results showed that the...
KEY FINDING: The RESOLVE sequence significantly increased the resolution of the diffusion images and improved the median signal-to-noise ratio of the middle (C4–6) and lower (C7–T1) cervical segments to the level of the upper cervical segment.
Frontiers in Neurology, 2019 • April 2, 2019
The study establishes an MRI protocol in mice to monitor the regeneration of small nerves without contrast agents, focusing on the facial nerve. MRI scans revealed nerve hyperintensity after injury, w...
KEY FINDING: Nerve injury caused hyperintense signal in T2-weighted images, and an increase in nerve size of the proximal and distal nerve stumps were observed.
Quant Imaging Med Surg, 2020 • May 1, 2020
This editorial comments on a study by Kliemann et al. that investigated functional connectivity in individuals who had undergone hemispherectomy. The key finding was that despite having only one hemis...
KEY FINDING: Interhemispheric connectivity in brains with only one hemisphere is strikingly similar to the functional network organization in brains with two hemispheres.
Global Spine Journal, 2025 • June 27, 2024
This systematic review and meta-analysis evaluated the utility of diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) in diagnosing and assessing degenerative cervical myelopathy (DCM). It analyzed 57 studies involving ov...
KEY FINDING: Fractional anisotropy (FA) values are significantly lower in DCM patients compared to healthy subjects at the maximal compression level.
Frontiers in Neurology, 2024 • December 13, 2024
This study used rs-fMRI and ALFF to examine brain activity differences in DoC patients with TBI and non-TBI, assessing the predictive value of these measures for consciousness improvement after SCS th...
KEY FINDING: Patients with TBI showed increased ALFF in the thalamus and anterior cingulate cortex, while the middle occipital lobe showed decreased ALFF.
Korean J Radiol, 2015 • November 1, 2015
The study evaluated the diagnostic performance of DTI parameters (MD, LD, RD, FA) in patients with cervical spondylotic myelopathy (CSM) who had spinal cord compression but no signal changes on conven...
KEY FINDING: FA values were negatively correlated with the degree of central canal stenosis, while RD values showed a positive correlation.