Somatosensory cortical atrophy after spinal cord injury A voxel-based morphometry study

Autor: Jurkiewicz, M T., Crawley, A P., Verrier, M C., Fehlings, M G., Mikulis, D J.
Zdroj: Neurology (Ovid); March 2006, Vol. 66 Issue: 5 p762-764, 3p
Abstrakt: The authors used voxel-based morphometry to compare sensorimotor cortical gray and white matter volume on structural MR images of a group of 17 individuals with cervical spinal cord injury (SCI) and a group of 17 healthy subjects. SCI subjects had reduced gray matter volume bilaterally in primary somatosensory cortex (p< 0.001). These findings suggest that the somatosensory cortex of the human brain atrophies after SCI.
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