The Neurobiology of Motor Skill Learning: Structural Adaptation Within Sensorimotor Regions of the Rat Brain

A second series of studies revealed the AC animals to have significantly more synapses/neuron within layer II/III of the motor cortex than control animals and that this difference was dependent on the amount of training the animals received. Changes in synapse morphology were also observed in the AC animals that included significant increases in postsynaptic density (PSD) length, number of synapses with perforated PSDs as well as number of synapses forming multiple synaptic contacts. Finally, an examination of the gross morphology of the red nucleus revealed no significant change in neuronal density which is believed to indicate no overall change in neuronal morphology.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Psychology

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2015

Author dc:creator

• Kleim, Jeffrey Allan

Contributors dc:contributor

• Greenough, William T.

• Biology, Neuroscience

Language dc:language

eng

Identifier

(MiAaPQ)AAI9737162

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/82211