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summary: This multi-centre study combined data from MS patients across Europe, and found that in MS patients far more areas of the brain were activated during a simple task. This suggests that recovery in MS may be associated with the use of alternative but less efficient areas of the brain for the same task.
authors: Wegner C, Filippi M, Korteweg T, Beckmann C, Ciccarelli O, De Stefano N, Enzinger C, Fazekas F, Agosta F, Gass A, Hirsch J, Johansen-Berg H, Kappos L, Barkhof F, Polman C, Mancini L, Manfredonia F, Marino S, Miller DH, Montalban X, Palace J, Rocca M, Ropele S, Rovira A, Smith S, Thompson A, Thornton J, Yousry T, Matthews PM.
source: Eur J Neurol. 2008 Feb;15(2):113-22
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Brain
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Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)
Multiple sclerosis
Ribonucleic acid
Sclerosis
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