Cortical plasticity contributes to neurological recovery in persons with spinal cord injury (SCI) and can be studied using resting-state fMRI. Global graph measures offer insufficient detail to investigate local changes. Here, we investigated whether mesoscale graph measures provide additional insight. Changes in sensorimotor, visual, and ventral attention networks were revealed. Notably, decreased communication between lower body SMN with the rest of the functional networks across the brain and increased communication within the upper body SMN were observed. This suggests a potential for the mesoscale graph measures' utility in understanding the complex brain functional reorganizations in persons with chronic SCI.
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