corticospinal tract
Diffusion Tensor Fiber Tractography for Arteriovenous Malformations: Quantitative Analyses to Evaluate the Corticospinal Tract and Optic Radiation
... though corticospinal tract volume did not significantly differ between the ...deficit, corticospinal tract abutting the nidus was not disrupted in any patient, but optic radiation disruption ...
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SDF1 in the dorsal corticospinal tract promotes CXCR4+ cell migration after spinal cord injury
... dorsal corticospinal tract (dCST) as well as the meninges, whereas CXCR4 was found only in ependymal cells surrounding the central ...dorsal corticospinal tract and the gray matter rostral to ...
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Diffusional Kurtosis along the Corticospinal Tract in Adult Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus
... the corticospinal tract and determine where along this path microstructure is compromised in patients diagnosed with normal pressure ...the corticospinal tract from ventricular enlargement can ...
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Diffusion Tensor Imaging Based Fractional Anisotropy Quantification in the Corticospinal Tract of Patients with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Using a Probabilistic Mixture Model
... A myotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a devastating and in many cases rapidly progressive neurodegenerative disease for which there is currently no effective treatment. In the classic type of ALS, both the upper motor ...
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Corticospinal Tract Compression by Hematoma in a Patient with Intracerebral Hemorrhage: A Diffusion Tensor Tractography and Functional MRI Study
... demonstrate corticospinal tract compression that was due to a hematoma by using diffu- sion tensor tractography (DTT) and functional MRI (fMRI) in a patient with an intracerebral hemorrhage ...The ...
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Diffusion Tensor Imaging Study of the Cortical Origin and Course of the Corticospinal Tract in Healthy Children
... T he axons of the corticospinal tract (CST) have traditionally been assumed to arise from neurons in the precentral gyrus (Brodmann area 4). An early human study with direct cortical stimulation most ...
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MR Revealed Myelination in the Cerebral Corticospinal Tract as a Marker for Pelizaeus Merzbacher's Disease with Proteolipid Protein Gene Duplication
... the corticospinal tract and optic radiation) and systems, but are frequently found perivascularly, sometimes as zones of preserved myelin along stretches of blood vessels, thus giving rise to the ...
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Functional repair of the corticospinal tract by delayed transplantation of olfactory ensheathing cells in adult rats
... dorsal corticospinal tract on one side at the level of the first cervical segment abolished the use of the ipsilateral forepaw for retrieval for at least 6 months after ...the corticospinal ...
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Can fully automated detection of corticospinal tract damage be used in stroke patients?
... RESULTS Fifty-one patients (53.9 6 12.7 years) and 23 age-matched healthy volunteers (50.6 6 14.7 years) were recruited. Characteristics of the patient group are provided in table e-1. Patients had a range of upper limb ...
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Semaphorin-6A controls guidance of corticospinal tract axons at multiple choice points
... border and reached the pons. At this stage, CST axons stain positively for PLAP in Sema6A gene trap embryos (Figure 4a, a'). This is far prior to the onset of myelination, demonstrating that neurons that give rise to the ...
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Corticospinal tract damage in HHH syndrome: a metabolic cause of hereditary spastic paraplegia
... predominant corticospinal dysfunction is evident in HHH syndrome, along with milder cerebellar signs, intellectual disability of variable degree and rare peripheral ...the corticospinal tract ...
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Diffusional Kurtosis Imaging of the Corticospinal Tract in Multiple Sclerosis: Association with Neurologic Disability
... Atlas corticospinal tract (red) are overlaid onto the mean axial (C) and coronal (A) fractional anisotropy ...FSL Tract-Based Spatial Statistics. The corticospi- nal tract VOIs were obtained ...
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Impaired transmission in the corticospinal tract and gait disability in spinal cord injured persons
... from corticospinal neurons during uncomplicated walking (Armstrong and Drew 1985; Bretzner and Drew 2005; Drew ...of corticospinal pathways to leg and arm muscles is modulated during the gait cycle and that ...
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Semaphorin 6A controls guidance of corticospinal tract axons at multiple choice points
... Of the axons that make it to the pyramidal decussation point in Sema6A mutants, some decussate normally and join the dorsal funiculus, while many take up an abnor- mal ventrolateral position and continue to project cau- ...
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Stathmin is enriched in the developing corticospinal tract
... mammalian corticospinal tract (CST) is the longest efferent axonal projection in the central nervous system (Stanfield, 1992; Sakai and Kaprielian, ...fasciculated corticospinal axons must then ...
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Assessing Corticospinal Tract Asymmetry in Unilateral Polymicrogyria
... METHODS: Corticospinal tract asymmetry of 9 patients with unilateral polymicrogyria substantially affecting the central region was retrospectively assessed on axial T1WI and ...
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Somatotopic Arrangement and Location of the Corticospinal Tract in the Brainstem of the Human Brain
... The corticospinal tract (CST) is the most important motor pathway in the human brain. Detailed knowledge of CST somatotopy is important in terms of rehabilitative management and invasive procedures for ...
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Quantitative Characterization of the Corticospinal Tract at 3T
... in tract reconstruction, so that a fiber that begins as part of the CST may veer off, for example, into neigh- boring tracts such as the superior cerebellar peduncle or the cor- pus ...and tract volume, ...
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Diffusion Tensor Imaging in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis: Volumetric Analysis of the Corticospinal Tract
... Changes in tissue structure due to CST degeneration mod- ify the diffusion characteristics of water molecules, which can be detected by DTI. Investigations applying DTI to the evalu- ation of ALS have generally focused ...
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Tract Specific and Region of Interest Analysis of Corticospinal Tract Integrity in Subcortical Ischemic Stroke: Reliability and Correlation with Motor Function of Affected Lower Extremity
... would show a high correlation with a more general clinical outcome measure, such as the FMA-LE, of lower extremity motor control. Using ROI-based analysis, however, may po- tentially enclose fibers originating from ...
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