Pyramidal tract stimulation restores normal corticospinal tract connections and visuomotor skill after early postnatal motor cortex activity blockade

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 28, Issue 29, 2008, Pages 7426-7434

  Salimi, Iran ^a,b   Friel, Kathleen M ^a   Martin, John H ^a,c  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c NEW YORK STATE PSYCHIATRIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Corticospinal tract; Development; Locomotion; Motion; Motor activity; Motor cortex; Movement; Spinal cord

Indexed keywords

MUSCIMOL;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; KITTEN; LOCOMOTION; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NERVE STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; VISION; ANIMAL; CAT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METHODOLOGY; NERVE CELL INHIBITION; NEWBORN; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; CATS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; FEMALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR SKILLS; NEURAL INHIBITION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; PYRAMIDAL TRACTS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 49049118294     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 02706474     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1078-08.2008     Document Type: Article

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