Publications de Nawal Noëlle Kinany

Towards personalized mapping through lumbosacral spinal cord task fMRI

Dimitri Nestor Alice Van De Ville, Nawal Noëlle Kinany, Ilaria Ricchi

The lumbosacral spinal cord contains neural circuits crucial for locomotion, organized into rostrocaudal levels with distinct somatosensory and motor neuron pools that project to and from the muscles of the lower limbs. However, the specific spinal levels ...

2025

Body size and intracranial volume interact with the structure of the central nervous system: A multi-center in vivo neuroimaging study

Dimitri Nestor Alice Van De Ville, Nawal Noëlle Kinany

Clinical research emphasizes the implementation of rigorous and reproducible study designs that rely on between-group matching or controlling for sources of biological variation such as subject’s sex and age. However, corrections for body size (i.e., heigh ...

MIT Press2025

Cerebro-spinal somatotopic organization uncovered through functional connectivity mapping

Dimitri Nestor Alice Van De Ville, Nawal Noëlle Kinany

Somatotopy, the topographical arrangement of sensorimotor pathways corresponding to distinct body parts, is a fundamental feature of the human central nervous system (CNS). Traditionally, investigations into brain and spinal cord somatotopy have been condu ...

2024

Characterization of the resting-state functional dynamics in the lumbosacral spinal cord

Dimitri Nestor Alice Van De Ville, Nawal Noëlle Kinany, Ilaria Ricchi

In recent years, there has been a growing interest in investigating spontaneous brain activity, with a newfound focus on understanding the resting state activity of the spinal cord due to its importance in sensorimotor interactions. Previous studies have p ...

European Signal Processing Conference, EUSIPCO2024

In vivo parcellation of the human spinal cord functional architecture

Dimitri Nestor Alice Van De Ville, Nawal Noëlle Kinany

The spinal cord is a critical component of the central nervous system, transmitting and integrating signals between the brain and the periphery via topographically organized functional levels. Despite its central role in sensorimotor processes and several ...

2024

Lumbosacral spinal cord functional connectivity at rest: From feasibility to reliability

Dimitri Nestor Alice Van De Ville, Nawal Noëlle Kinany, Ilaria Ricchi

In the past decade, exploration of spontaneous blood-oxygen-level-dependent (BOLD) signal fluctuations has expanded beyond the brain to include the spinal cord. While most studies have predominantly focused on the cervical region, the lumbosacral segments ...

2024

Decoding cerebro-spinal signatures of human behavior: Application to motor sequence learning

Dimitri Nestor Alice Van De Ville, Nawal Noëlle Kinany

Mapping the neural patterns that drive human behavior is a key challenge in neuroscience. Even the simplest of our everyday actions stem from the dynamic and complex interplay of multiple neural structures across the central nervous system (CNS). Yet, most ...

ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE2023

Towards reliable spinal cord fMRI: Assessment of common imaging protocols

Dimitri Nestor Alice Van De Ville, Silvestro Micera, Nawal Noëlle Kinany

Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) has revolutionized the investigation of brain function. Similar approaches can be translated to probe spinal mechanisms. However, imaging the spinal cord remains challenging, notably due to its size and location ...

ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE2022

Post-stroke reorganization of transient brain activity characterizes deficits and of functions

Dimitri Nestor Alice Van De Ville, Nawal Noëlle Kinany, Elvira Pirondini

Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) has been widely employed to study stroke pathophysiology. In particular, analyses of fMRI signals at rest were directed at quantifying the impact of stroke on spatial features of brain networks. However, brain n ...

ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE2022

Spinal Cord fMRI: A New Window into the Central Nervous System

Dimitri Nestor Alice Van De Ville, Silvestro Micera, Nawal Noëlle Kinany

With the brain, the spinal cord forms the central nervous system. Initially considered a passive relay between the brain and the periphery, the spinal cord is now recognized as being active and plastic. Yet, it remains largely overlooked by the human neuro ...

SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC2022