![]() ![]() 8–11 However, little is known about the spatiotemporal dynamics of remote spinal cord white and grey matter atrophy, which are key processes involved in the patients' long-term recovery and targets of interventions. 2 Traumatic and non-traumatic SCI cause not only focal damage to the injury site (primary injury), 3–5 but also trigger a cascade of secondary pathological processes that propagate above and below the injury site, 1 6 7 affecting also the brain. 1 Currently, there is no cure for SCI, but rehabilitation has been shown to improve outcome. Spinal cord injury (SCI) is a devastating event that usually leads to permanent impairments. Professor Patrick Freund, Spinal Cord Injury Center, Balgrist University Hospital, Zurich 8008, Switzerland 6 Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging, UCL Institute of Neurology, London, UK.5 Department of Systems Neuroscience, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany.4 Felix Bloch Institute for Solid State Physics, Faculty of Physics and Earth Sciences, Leipzig University, Leipzig, Germany.3 Department of Neurophysics, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany.2 Department of Brain Repair and Rehabilitation, UCL Institute of Neurology, London, UK.1 Spinal Cord Injury Center, Balgrist University Hospital, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
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