AI Article Synopsis
- Researchers studied 3 patients with brain damage in a part called the pons to understand how their movement control works.
- They used special imaging techniques to see the pathways that help with movement in the brain.
- They found that the patients’ ability to move was mostly managed by a part of the brain that wasn’t damaged, even though there was some injury nearby.
Article Abstract
We investigated the motor control pathway in 3 patients with pontine infarct using diffusion tensor tractography and functional magnetic resonance imaging. The motor tracts of the affected hemisphere were observed to pass along the same spared peri-infarct corticospinal tract area of the pons on both the first and second diffusion tensor tractography. It seems that the main motor function of these patients is controlled via the spared peri-infarct corticospinal tract.
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