Spinal cord gray matter atrophy correlates with multiple sclerosis disability

Abstract

In multiple sclerosis (MS), cerebral gray matter (GM) atrophy correlates more strongly than white matter (WM) atrophy with disability. The corresponding relationships in the spinal cord (SC) are unknown due to technical limitations in assessing SC GM atrophy. Using phase‐sensitive inversion recovery (PSIR) magnetic resonance imaging, we determined the association of the SC GM and SC WM areas with MS disability and disease type.

Document Details

Document Type
Pub Defense Publication
Publication Date
Aug 21, 2014
Source ID
10.1002/ana.24241

Entities

People

  • Alyssa H. Zhu
  • Ari J. Green
  • Bruce A C Cree
  • Carolyn Bevan
  • Douglas S. Goodin
  • Eduardo Caverzasi
  • Emmanuelle Waubant
  • H.‐christian Von Büdingen
  • Iryna V. Lobach
  • Jeffrey M. Gelfand
  • Kesshi M Jordan
  • Monica Bucci
  • Nico Papinutto
  • Regina Schlaeger
  • Roland G. Henry
  • Stephen L. Hauser
  • Valentina Panara
  • William A. Stern

Organizations

  • Conrad N. Hilton Foundation
  • Howard Hughes Medical Institute
  • National Institutes of Health
  • National Multiple Sclerosis Society
  • Race to Erase MS
  • United States Department of Defense
  • University of Basel
  • University of California, San Francisco

Tags

Fields of Study

  • Psychology

Readers

  • Astronomy/Astrophysics
  • Neuroscience