Experience-dependent amelioration of motor impairments in adulthood following neonatal medial frontal cortex injury in rats is accompanied by motor map expansion

Neuroscience

Volumn 141, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 1315-1326

  Williams, P T J ^a   Gharbawie, O A ^a   Kolb, B ^a   Kleim, J A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LETHBRIDGE   (Canada)

Author keywords

complex housing; forelimb reaching; intracortical microstimulation; neonatal brain injury; recovery; sex

Indexed keywords

ADULTHOOD; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL HOUSING; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN INJURY; BRAIN MAPPING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; HEMISPHERE; LIMB MOVEMENT; MALE; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RAT STRAIN;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BRAIN INJURIES; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; FEMALE; FORELIMB; FRONTAL LOBE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; MALE; MOVEMENT DISORDERS; PHYSICAL CONDITIONING, ANIMAL; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; SEX FACTORS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 33746392317     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2006.04.081     Document Type: Article

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