title: [Functional MRI: brain plasticity, brain disease and functional recovery].
abstract: Brain plasticity may be defined as long-term alteration in behavior related activity of distributed neural systems. Functional imaging, and particularly functional MRI, allows to investigate the mechanisms underlying brain plasticity. Two aspects may be distinguished: one is learning in healthy subjects; the other is functional reorganization following or associated with acute or chronic brain injury. Because functional MRI is totally non invasive, it appears well suited to follow such reorganization over time. This theme will be developed in the following text.
authors.affiliation: Service de Neuroradiologie, Groupe Hospitalier Pitié-Salpêtrière, Paris.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Lehéricy
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Marsault
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Le Bihan
mesh_terms: D001927:Brain Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging / Q000379:methods*; D009473:Neuronal Plasticity / Q000502:physiology*; D016896:Treatment Outcome
vernacular_title: IRM fonctionnelle: plasticité cérébrale, cerveau pathologique et récupération fonctionnelle.