Functional Brain Connectivity during Multiple Motor Imagery Tasks in Spinal Cord Injury.

ABSTRACT: Reciprocal communication of the central and peripheral nervous systems is compromised during spinal cord injury due to neurotrauma of ascending and descending pathways. Changes in brain organization after spinal cord injury have been associated with differences in prognosis. Changes in functional connectivity may also serve as injury biomarkers. Most studies on functional connectivity have focused on chronic complete injury or resting-state condition. In our study, ten right-handed patients with incomplete spinal cord injury and ten age- and gender-matched healthy controls performed multiple visual motor imagery tasks of upper extremities and walking under high-resolution electroencephalography recording. Directed transfer function was used to study connectivity at the cortical source spac

SUBMITTER: Athanasiou A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5954936 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature