Complete and Partial Lesions of the Pyramidal Tract in the Rat Affect Qualitative Measures of Skilled Movements: Impairment in Fixations as a Model for Clumsy Behavior

Little is known about prenatal and perinatal brain injury resulting in subsequent clumsy behavior in children. One candidate motor system is the pyramidal tract. The tract traverses the entire central nervous system and, through direct and indirect connections to the brainstem and spinal cord sensor...

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Main Authors: Ian Q. Whishaw, Dionne M. Piecharka, Felicia R. Drever
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2003-01-01
Series:Neural Plasticity
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/NP.2003.77
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