Cell-based and stem-cell-based treatments for spinal cord injury: evidence from clinical trials

CM Zipser, JJ Cragg, JD Guest, MG Fehlings… - The Lancet …, 2022 - thelancet.com
Spinal cord injury is a severely disabling neurological condition leading to impaired mobility,
pain, and autonomic dysfunction. Most often, a single traumatic event, such as a traffic or …

The neuroanatomical–functional paradox in spinal cord injury

K Fouad, PG Popovich, MA Kopp… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
Although lesion size is widely considered to be the most reliable predictor of outcome after
CNS injury, lesions of comparable size can produce vastly different magnitudes of functional …

Traumatic and nontraumatic spinal cord injury: pathological insights from neuroimaging

G David, S Mohammadi, AR Martin… - Nature Reviews …, 2019 - nature.com
Pathophysiological changes in the spinal cord white and grey matter resulting from injury
can be observed with MRI techniques. These techniques provide sensitive markers of …

MRI in traumatic spinal cord injury: from clinical assessment to neuroimaging biomarkers

P Freund, M Seif, N Weiskopf, K Friston… - The Lancet …, 2019 - thelancet.com
Traumatic spinal cord injury occurs when an external physical impact damages the spinal
cord and leads to permanent neurological dysfunction and disability, and it is associated …

[HTML][HTML] Guidelines for the conduct of clinical trials in spinal cord injury: Neuroimaging biomarkers

M Seif, CAM Gandini Wheeler-Kingshott… - Spinal Cord, 2019 - nature.com
Traumatic spinal cord injury (SCI) leads to immediate neuronal and axonal damage at the
focal injury site and triggers secondary pathologic series of events resulting in sensorimotor …

[HTML][HTML] Finger somatotopy is preserved after tetraplegia but deteriorates over time

S Kikkert, D Pfyffer, M Verling, P Freund, N Wenderoth - Elife, 2021 - elifesciences.org
Previous studies showed reorganised and/or altered activity in the primary sensorimotor
cortex after a spinal cord injury (SCI), suggested to reflect abnormal processing. However …

[HTML][HTML] Spinal cord imaging markers and recovery of volitional leg movement with spinal cord epidural stimulation in individuals with clinically motor complete spinal …

E Rejc, AC Smith, KA Weber, B Ugiliweneza… - Frontiers in systems …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Previous studies have shown that epidural stimulation of the lumbosacral spinal cord (scES)
can re-enable lower limb volitional motor control in individuals with chronic, clinically motor …

Predictive value of midsagittal tissue bridges on functional recovery after spinal cord injury

D Pfyffer, K Vallotton, A Curt… - … and neural repair, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Background The majority of patients with spinal cord injury (SCI) have anatomically
incomplete lesions and present with preserved tissue bridges, yet their outcomes vary …

Longitudinal changes of spinal cord grey and white matter following spinal cord injury

G David, D Pfyffer, K Vallotton, N Pfender… - Journal of Neurology …, 2021 - jnnp.bmj.com
Objectives Traumatic and non-traumatic spinal cord injury produce neurodegeneration
across the entire neuraxis. However, the spatiotemporal dynamics of spinal cord grey and …

Stimulation of the cuneiform nucleus enables training and boosts recovery after spinal cord injury

AS Hofer, MI Scheuber, AM Sartori, N Good, SA Stalder… - Brain, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Severe spinal cord injuries result in permanent paraparesis in spite of the frequent sparing
of small portions of white matter. Spared fibre tracts are often incapable of maintaining and …