Claire Riley

Structure-Function Decoupling of the Sensorimotor and Default Mode Networks in Black Americans With MS.

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology February 12, 2026 Emilio Cipriano, Giacomo Boffa, Maria Petracca et al.

Background and objectives: Multiple sclerosis (MS) exhibits racially disparate rates of disease progression. Black people with MS (B-PwMS) experience a more severe disease course than non-Hispanic White people with MS (NHW-PwMS). Here we investigated structural and functional connectivity as well as structure-function decoupling in the sensorimotor and default mode networks (SMN and DMN,...