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ArticleBrain sciences2024

Changes in Structural Neural Networks in the Recovery Process of Motor Paralysis after Stroke.

Ikuo Kimura, Atsushi Senoo, Masahiro Abo

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Article in Brain sciences, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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5citing papers in PubMed, 3 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 7 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Systematic review of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation for post-stroke hemiplegic shoulder pain.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

3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Ikuo KimuraDepartment of Rehabilitation Medicine, Izumi Memorial Hospital, 1-3-7 Motoki, Adachi-ku, Tokyo 123-0853, Japan.
Atsushi SenooDepartment of Radiological Sciences, Graduate School of Human Health Sciences, Tokyo Metropolitan University, 7-2-10 Higashi-ogu, Arakawa-ku, Tokyo 116-8551, Japan.
Masahiro AboDepartment of Rehabilitation Medicine, The Jikei University School of Medicine, 3-25-8 Nishi-Shimbashi, Minato-ku, Tokyo 105-8461, Japan.ORCID 0000-0001-6701-4974
Jikei University School of Medicine · JPTokyo Metropolitan University · JP

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In recent years, neurorehabilitation has been actively used to treat motor paralysis after stroke. However, the impacts of rehabilitation on neural networks in the brain remain largely unknown. Therefore, we investigated changes in structural neural networks after rehabilitation therapy in patients who received a combination of low-frequency repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (LF-rTMS) and intensive occupational therapy (intensive-OT) as neurorehabilitation. Fugl-Meyer assessment (FMA) for upper extremity (FMA-UE) and Action Research Arm Test (ARAT), both of which reflected upper limb motor function, were conducted before and after rehabilitation therapy. At the same time, diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) and three-dimensional T1-weighted imaging (3D T1WI) were performed. After analyzing the structural connectome based on DTI data, measures related to connectivity in neural networks were calculated using graph theory. Rehabilitation therapy prompted a significant increase in connectivity with the isthmus of the cingulate gyrus in the ipsilesional hemisphere (

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diffusion tensor imagingDTIgraph theoryneurorehabilitationrepetitive transcranial magnetic stimulationrTMSstrokestructural neural networks

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PMID38539586
PMCPMC10968532
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