ArticleHuman brain mapping2018
New evidence for preserved somatosensory pathways in complete spinal cord injury: A fMRI study.
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- The impact of non-invasive brain-computer interface technology on the therapeutic effect of patients with spinal cord injury: a summary of evidence based on meta-analysis.Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitation · 2025Pooled it
- Research progress in neuropathic pain after spinal cord injury: a bibliometric study from 2013 to 2024.Frontiers in neurology · 2024Pooled it
- Disentangling the Effects of Spinal Cord Injury and Related Neuropathic Pain on Supraspinal Neuroplasticity: A Systematic Review on Neuroimaging.Frontiers in neurology · 2019Pooled it
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- Manual Dexterity Impairment in Patients with Complete Paraplegia: An Exploratory Study.Brain sciences · 2026Article
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- Differential gray and white matter alterations in children with complete and incomplete spinal cord injuries: a preliminary MRI study using voxel-based morphometry and tract-based spatial statistics.Brain structure & function · 2025Article
- Traumatic Spinal Cord Injury: Review of the Literature.Journal of clinical medicine · 2025Review
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- Distinct brain network patterns in complete and incomplete spinal cord injury patients based on graph theory analysis.CNS neuroscience & therapeutics · 2024Article
- Neuropathic pain relief and altered brain networks after dorsal root entry zone microcoagulation in patients with spinal cord injury.Brain communications · 2024Article
- Changes in respiratory structure and function after traumatic cervical spinal cord injury: observations from spinal cord and brain.Frontiers in neurology · 2023Review
- White matter microstructural alterations in patients with neuropathic pain after spinal cord injury: a diffusion tensor imaging study.Frontiers in neurology · 2023Article
- Trans-Spinal Electrical Stimulation Therapy for Functional Rehabilitation after Spinal Cord Injury: Review.Journal of clinical medicine · 2022Review
- Rethinking the Body in the Brain after Spinal Cord Injury.Journal of clinical medicine · 2022Article
- The Overexpression of Insulin-Like Growth Factor-1 and Neurotrophin-3 Promote Functional Recovery and Alleviate Spasticity After Spinal Cord Injury.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2022Article
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- Disruption of sensation-dependent bladder emptying due to bladder overdistension in a complete spinal cord injury: A case report.World journal of clinical cases · 2021Article
- Supraspinal nociceptive networks in neuropathic pain after spinal cord injury.Human brain mapping · 2021Article
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Abstract
Trauma to the spinal cord rarely results in complete division of the cord with surviving nerves sometimes remaining silent or failing to function normally. The term motor or sensory discomplete has been used to describe this important but unclassified subgroup of complete SCI. Importantly, silent motor or sensory pathways may contribute to aversive symptoms (spasticity, pain) or improved treatment success. To demonstrate more objectively the presence of subclinical preserved somatosensory pathways in clinically complete SCI, a cross-sectional study using functional MRI (fMRI) was undertaken. The presence of brain activation following innocuous brushing of an insensate region below-injury (great toe) was analyzed in 23 people (19 males (83%), mean ± SD age 43 ± 13 years) with clinically complete (AIS A) SCI with (n = 13) and without (n = 10) below-level neuropathic pain and 21 people without SCI or pain (15 males (71%); mean ± SD age 41 ± 14 years). Location appropriate, significant fMRI brain activation was detected in 48% (n = 11/23) of subjects with clinically complete SCI from below-injury stimulation. No association was found between the presence of subclinical sensory pathways transmitting innocuous mechanical stimuli (dorsal column medical lemniscal) and below-level neuropathic pain (χ
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