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

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 clea...

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Main Authors: Alkinoos Athanasiou, Manousos A. Klados, Niki Pandria, Nicolas Foroglou, Kyriaki R. Kavazidi, Konstantinos Polyzoidis, Panagiotis D. Bamidis
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2017-10-01
Series:Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fnhum.2017.00517/full