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A Systematic Review of Investigations into Functional Brain Connectivity Following Spinal Cord Injury

Overview of attention for article published in Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, October 2017
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Title
A Systematic Review of Investigations into Functional Brain Connectivity Following Spinal Cord Injury
Published in
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, October 2017
DOI 10.3389/fnhum.2017.00517
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Alkinoos Athanasiou, Manousos A. Klados, Niki Pandria, Nicolas Foroglou, Kyriaki R. Kavazidi, Konstantinos Polyzoidis, Panagiotis D. Bamidis

Abstract

Background: Complete or incomplete spinal cord injury (SCI) results in varying degree of motor, sensory and autonomic impairment. Long-lasting, often irreversible disability results from disconnection of efferent and afferent pathways. How does this disconnection affect brain function is not so clear. Changes in brain organization and structure have been associated with SCI and have been extensively studied and reviewed. Yet, our knowledge regarding brain connectivity changes following SCI is overall lacking. Methods: In this study we conduct a systematic review of articles regarding investigations of functional brain networks following SCI, searching on PubMed, Scopus and ScienceDirect according to PRISMA-P 2015 statement standards. Results: Changes in brain connectivity have been shown even during the early stages of the chronic condition and correlate with the degree of neurological impairment. Connectivity changes appear as dynamic post-injury procedures. Sensorimotor networks of patients and healthy individuals share similar patterns but new functional interactions have been identified as unique to SCI networks. Conclusions: Large-scale, multi-modal, longitudinal studies on SCI patients are needed to understand how brain network reorganization is established and progresses through the course of the condition. The expected insight holds clinical relevance in preventing maladaptive plasticity after SCI through individualized neurorehabilitation, as well as the design of connectivity-based brain-computer interfaces and assistive technologies for SCI patients.

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 12 21%
Student > Ph. D. Student 9 16%
Student > Master 7 13%
Student > Bachelor 5 9%
Other 5 9%
Other 9 16%
Unknown 9 16%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Neuroscience 16 29%
Engineering 10 18%
Medicine and Dentistry 4 7%
Psychology 4 7%
Computer Science 2 4%
Other 8 14%
Unknown 12 21%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 6. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 14 July 2020.
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#4,804,243
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#2,127
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#47
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