Stroke is a common cause of permanent disability accompanied by devastating impairments
for which there is a pressing need for effective treatment. Motor, sensory and cognitive …

This Commentary compares the connections of the dopaminergic system with the striatum in
rats and primates with respect to two levels of striatal organization: a tripartite functional …

We have reviewed a battery of useful tests for evaluating sensorimotor function and plasticity
acutely and chronically in unilateral rat models of central nervous system injury. These tests …

Kleim, Jeffrey A., Scott Barbay, and Randolph J. Nudo. Functional reorganization of the rat
motor cortex following motor skill learning. J. Neurophysiol. 80: 3321–3325, 1998. Adult rats …

The organization of forelimb representation areas of the monkey, cat, and rat motor cortices
has been studied in depth, but its characterization in the mouse lags far behind. We used …

Based upon neurophysiologic, neuroanatomic, and neuroimaging studies conducted over
the past two decades, the cerebral cortex can now be viewed as functionally and structurally …

The regional specificity and functional significance of learning-dependent synaptogenesis
within physiologically defined regions of the adult motor cortex are described. In comparison …

The mouse is an excellent model for investigations of stroke and neural injury. However,
there is a paucity of long term functional outcome measurements for the mouse. We …

During injured tissue regeneration, the extracellular matrix plays a key role in controlling and
coordinating various cellular events by binding and releasing secreted proteins in addition …

Unilateral damage to the forelimb representation area of the sensorimotor cortex in adult rats
increases dendritic arborization of layer V pyramidal neurons of the contralateral homotopic …