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ArticleScientific reports2021

Cerebellar contribution to sensorimotor adaptation deficits in humans with spinal cord injury.

Yuming Lei, Monica A Perez

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Article in Scientific reports, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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9citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
1.3field-weighted citation impact, top 23% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

9 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 17 citations in OpenAlex.

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  2. Exercise therapy can effectively improve trunk performance and sitting balance in spinal cord injury: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Yuming LeiDepartment of Health and Kinesiology, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, 77845, USA.
Monica A PerezShirley Ryan Ability Lab, Northwestern University, Edward Hines, Jr. VA Hospital, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, 60611, USA. mperez04@sralab.org.
Bruce W. Carter VA Medical Center · USEdward Hines, Jr. VA Hospital · US

Funding

Corticospinal Function after Spinal Cord InjuryR01NS090622 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · PI PEREZ, MONICA A · 2014 to 2018
$1.6M
Grasping Function after Spinal Cord InjuryI01RX002474 · VA · MIAMI VA HEALTH CARE SYSTEM · PI PEREZ, MONICA A · 2018 to 2024
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Repetitive Acute Intermittent Hypoxia for Spinal Cord RepairI01RX002848 · VA · EDWARD HINES JR VA HOSPITAL · PI CASELLA, GIZELDA T.B., OUDEGA, MARTIN · 2020 to 2024
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NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS090622RRD VA I01 RX002474
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Humans with spinal cord injury (SCI) show deficits in associating motor commands and sensory feedback. Do these deficits affect their ability to adapt movements to new demands? To address this question, we used a robotic exoskeleton to examine learning of a sensorimotor adaptation task during reaching movements by distorting the relationship between hand movement and visual feedback in 22 individuals with chronic incomplete cervical SCI and 22 age-matched control subjects. We found that SCI individuals showed a reduced ability to learn from movement errors compared with control subjects. Sensorimotor areas in anterior and posterior cerebellar lobules contribute to learning of movement errors in intact humans. Structural brain imaging showed that sensorimotor areas in the cerebellum, including lobules I-VI, were reduced in size in SCI compared with control subjects and cerebellar atrophy increased with increasing time post injury. Notably, the degree of spared tissue in the cerebellum was positively correlated with learning rates, indicating participants with lesser atrophy showed higher learning rates. These results suggest that the reduced ability to learn from movement errors during reaching movements in humans with SCI involves abnormalities in the spinocerebellar structures. We argue that this information might help in the rehabilitation of people with SCI.

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Adaptation, PhysiologicalNeurofeedbackPsychomotor PerformanceAdultAgedAnalysis of VarianceCerebellumElectromyographyFeedback, SensoryFemaleHumansLearningMagnetic Resonance ImagingMaleMiddle AgedSpinal Cord Injuries

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PMID33510183
PMCPMC7843630
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