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Brain, Vol. 126, No. 7, 1650-1659,
July 2003
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doi: 10.1093/brain/awg159
Improved understanding of cortical injury by incorporating measures of functional anatomy
1 University of Washington, Department of Neurology, Seattle, and 2 The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, USA *Present address: University of California Irvine Medical Centre, California, USA
Correspondence to: Steven C. Cramer, MD, University of California Irvine, Department of Neurology, UCI Medical Centre, 101 The City Drive South, Building 53 Room 203 Orange, CA 92868–4280, USA E-mail: scramer{at}uci.edu
Volume of injury is often used to describe a brain insult. However, this approach assumes cortical equivalency and ignores the special importance that certain cortical regions have in the generation of behaviour. We hypothesized that incorporating knowledge of normal brain functional anatomy into the description of a motor cortex injury would provide an improved framework for understanding consequent behavioural effects. Anatomical scanning was performed in 21 patients with a chronic cortical stroke that involved the sensorimotor cortex. Functional MRI (fMRI) was used to generate separate average activation maps for four tasks including hand, shoulder and face motor tasks in 14 controls. For each task, group average maps for contralateral sensorimotor cortex activation were generated. Injury to these maps was measured by superimposing each patient’s infarct. These measurements were then correlated with behavioural assessments. In bivariate analyses, injury to fMRI maps correlated with behavioural assessments more strongly than total infarct volume. For example, performance on the Purdue pegboard test by the stroke-affected hand correlated with the fraction of hand motor map injured (r = –0.79) more strongly than with infarct volume (r = –0.60). In multiple linear regression analyses, measures of functional map injury, but not infarct volume, remained as significant explanatory variables for behavioural assessments. Injury to >37% of the hand motor map was associated with total loss of hand motor function. Hand and shoulder motor maps showed considerable spatial overlap (63%) and similar behavioural consequences of injury to each map, while hand and face motor maps showed limited overlap (10.4%) and disparate behavioural consequences of injury to each map. Lesion effects support current models of broad, rather than focal, sensorimotor cortex somatotopic representation. In the current cross-sectional study, incorporating an understanding of normal tissue function into lesion measurement provided improved insights into the behavioural consequences of focal brain injury.
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