Differential effects of aging on fore- and hindpaw maps of rat somatosensory cortex.

Getting older is associated with a decline of cognitive and sensorimotor abilities, but it remains elusive whether age-related changes are due to accumulating degenerational processes, rendering them largely irreversible, or whether they reflect plastic, adaptational and presumably compensatory chan...

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Main Authors: Marianne David-Jürgens, Lydia Churs, Thomas Berkefeld, Roberto F Zepka, Hubert R Dinse
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2008-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2561003?pdf=render