title: Spinal cord injury: Visualizing plasticity and repair in the injured CNS.
abstract: The heterogeneity of traumatic spinal cord injury necessitates large clinical trials to differentiate natural improvements from enhanced recovery due to therapeutic intervention. Recent development of an imaging biomarker to visualize changes in the corticospinal motor system could offer the opportunity to directly visualize anatomical evidence of repair, regeneration and plasticity.
authors.affiliation: Division of Neurosurgery, Toronto Western Hospital, 399 Bathurst Street, Toronto, ON M5T 2S8, Canada.
authors.forename: David W
authors.initials: DW
authors.lastname: Cadotte
authors.forename: Michael G
authors.initials: MG
authors.lastname: Fehlings
mesh_terms: D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging / Q000379:methods*; D008297:Male; D009044:Motor Cortex / Q000473:pathology*; D011712:Pyramidal Tracts / Q000473:pathology*; D013003:Somatosensory Cortex / Q000473:pathology*; D013119:Spinal Cord Injuries / Q000473:pathology*
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