Structural Plasticity of Remote Cortical Brain Regions is Determined by Connectivity to the Primary Lesion in Subcortical Stroke
Structural Plasticity of Remote Cortical Brain Regions is Determined by Connectivity to the Primary Lesion in Subcortical Stroke
B. Cheng,R. Schulz,5 Authors,G. Thomalla
2015 · DOI: 10.1038/jcbfm.2015.74
Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism · 48 Citations
TLDR
The results show a specific impact of subcortical lesions on distant, yet connected cortical areas explainable by secondary neuro-axonal degeneration of distant areas and no significant correlation of changes in CT with clinical outcome parameters is found.