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Article History
Received: 20 August 2025
Accepted: 19 March 2026
First Online: 12 May 2026
Competing interests
: N. Weidner, R. Abel, D. Maier, M. Saur, K. Röhl, K. Rehahn, M. Baumberger, M. Hund-Georgiadis, J. Benito, M. Aach, A. Badke, J. Kriz, N. Weiskopf, P. Freund, and A. Curt received funding through their respective institutions via the European Commission (Grant Agreement 681094) or Wings for Life for the conduct of the work presented in this manuscript. R. Rupp received funding from the European Multicenter Study about Spinal Cord Injury (EMSCI) and serves as the unpaid Chair of the International Standards Committee and Board Member of the American Spinal Injury Association (ASIA). A. Curt is a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Wings for Life Foundation (Salzburg, Austria) and the International Foundation for Research in Paraplegia (Zurich, Switzerland). N. Weiskopf is supported by the Swiss State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation (contract 15.0137). He holds a patent on the acquisition of MRI data during spoiler gradients (US 10,401,453 B2) and has received grants from the German Federal Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF), the German Research Foundation (DFG), and the Max Planck Society (MPS). He participates in the steering committee of the NIH BRAIN Initiative U24 grant (NexGen) and chairs the Scientific Advisory Board of the Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology. His employers, the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences and Wellcome Center for Human Neuroimaging, have institutional research agreements with Siemens Healthcare. All other authors declare no competing interests.