MRI and Motor Outcomes in Children with Cerebral Palsy

Deborah Gaebler-Spira; Kristen McCormick

doi:10.15844/pedneurbriefs-29-8-3

MRI and Motor Outcomes in Children with Cerebral Palsy

Pediatr Neurol Briefs. 2015 Aug;29(8):60. doi: 10.15844/pedneurbriefs-29-8-3.

Authors

Deborah Gaebler-Spira¹, Kristen McCormick¹

Affiliation

¹ Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago; and Departments of Pediatrics and Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL.

Abstract

Investigators from University of Melbourne, Monash Children's Hospital, Royal Children's Hospital & Murdoch Children's Research Institute sought to identify correlation between magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) characteristics including white matter injury (WMI) in children with cerebral palsy (CP) and severity in motor outcomes later in life, irrespective of CP subtype.

Keywords: Cerebral Palsy; Diffusion Tensor Imaging; GMFM-66; Structural Connectome.