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Rich-Club Organizational Changes Over the Course of Motor Recovery after First-Time Acute Stroke

Lu Wang¹, Hing-Chiu Chang¹, Peng Cao¹, and Edward.S Hui¹
¹Department of Diagnostic Radiology, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

Rich-club organization remerged one month after stroke and high order regions were found at 6 months when patients functionally recovered, which suggests potential relation between reemergence of rich-club organization and motor recovery.

Figure 1. Rich club coefficient of group-averaged structural brain networks at (A) within 1 week, and (B) 1, (C) 3 and (D) 6 months after first-time ischemic acute stroke. * p < 0.01 after FDR correction, indicating a significant rich-club organization at nodal degree k.

Table 1. Rich-club nodes at different time points after stroke