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No evidence for motor-recovery-related cortical connectivity changes after stroke using resting-state fMRI

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JOURNAL OF NEUROPHYSIOLOGY
卷 127, 期 3, 页码 637-650

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AMER PHYSIOLOGICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00148.2021

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cortical reorganization; functional connectivity; motor recovery; resting-state imaging; stroke

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  1. James S. McDonnell Foundation
  2. Puhringer Foundation
  3. Wellcome Trust [094874/Z/10/Z]
  4. Wellcome Trust [094874/Z/10/Z] Funding Source: Wellcome Trust

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Despite substantial motor recovery, longitudinal changes in functional connectivity after stroke were not detected between patients and controls, raising doubts about the relevance of changes in cortico-cortical connectivity for promoting motor recovery. The results suggest that the value of resting-state imaging in assessing poststroke cortical connectivity changes may need to be further examined.
It has been proposed that a form of cortical reorganization (changes in functional connectivity between brain areas) can be assessed with resting-state (rs) functional MRI (fMRI). Here, we report a longitudinal data set collected from 19 patients with subcortical stroke and 11 controls. Patients were imaged up to five times over 1 year. We found no evidence, using rs-fMRI, for longitudinal poststroke cortical connectivity changes despite substantial behavioral recovery. These results could be construed as questioning the value of resting-state imaging. Here, we argue instead that they are consistent with other emerging reasons to challenge the idea of motor-recovery-related cortical reorganization poststroke when conceived of as changes in connectivity between cortical areas. NEW & NOTEWORTHY We investigated longitudinal changes in functional connectivity after stroke. Despite substantial motor recovery, we found no differences in functional connectivity patterns between patients and controls, nor any changes over time. Assuming that rs-fMRI is an adequate method to capture connectivity changes between cortical regions after brain injury, these results provide reason to doubt that changes in cortico-cortical connectivity are the relevant mechanism for promoting motor recovery.

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