Adaptation in the motor cortex following cervical spinal cord injury

BACKGROUND: The nature of the adaptive changes that occur in the cerebral cortex following injury to the cervical spinal cord are largely unknown. OBJECTIVE: To investigate these adaptive changes by examining the relationship between the motor cortical representation of the paretic right upper extremity compared with that of the tongue. The tongue was selected because the spinal cord injury (SCI) does not affect its movement and the cortical …