The cerebellum in maintenance of a motor skill: A hierarchy of brain and spinal cord plasticity underlies H-reflex conditioning

Learning and Memory

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 208-215

  Wolpaw, Jonathan R ^a   Chen, Xiang Yang ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CEREBELLUM; CEREBELLUM NUCLEUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTATE NUCLEUS; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HOFFMANN REFLEX; INSTRUMENTAL CONDITIONING; INTERPOSITUS NUCLEUS; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPINAL CORD FUNCTION;

ANIMALS; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; BRAIN; CEREBELLAR NUCLEI; CEREBELLUM; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; FEMALE; H-REFLEX; MALE; MOTOR SKILLS; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SPINAL CORD;

EID: 33645531926     PISSN: 10720502     EISSN: 15495485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/lm.92706     Document Type: Article

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