Motor system plasticity after unilateral injury in the developing brain.
Preston T J A WilliamsYu-Qiu JiangJohn H MartinPublished in: Developmental medicine and child neurology (2017)
Neural activity-dependent processes inform the brain and spinal cord response to injury. The corticospinal motor system may 'oversee' development of its downstream subcortical targets through activity, trophic-like interactions, and synaptic competition.