Motor cortex injury has different behavioral and anatomical effects in early and late adolescence

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 124, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 612-622

  Nemati, Farshad ^a   Kolb, Bryan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LETHBRIDGE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Adolescence; Cortical plasticity; Dendritic organization; Motor cortex injury

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENCE; ADOLESCENT; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BODY EQUILIBRIUM; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN INJURY; BRAIN WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITIC CELL; FEMALE; FOOD INTAKE; FORCED SWIMMING TEST; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; MORPHOLOGY; MOTOR CORTEX; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; RAT; SENSORIMOTOR CORTEX; SUNFLOWER; TASK PERFORMANCE; THICKNESS;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; MOTOR CORTEX; PARIETAL LOBE; PYRAMIDAL CELLS; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION;

EID: 77958146941     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: 19390084     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0020911     Document Type: Article

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