Motor training induces experience-specific patterns of plasticity across motor cortex and spinal cord.

@article{Adkins2006MotorTI,  title={Motor training induces experience-specific patterns of plasticity across motor cortex and spinal cord.},  author={DeAnna L. Adkins and Jeffery A. Boychuk and Michael S. Remple and Jeffrey A. Kleim},  journal={Journal of applied physiology},  year={2006},  volume={101 6},  pages={          1776-82        },  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:14285824}}
The results demonstrate that the acquisition of skilled movement induces a reorganization of neural circuitry within motor cortex that supports the production and refinement ofskilled movement sequences, showing the robust pattern of anatomic and physiological plasticity that occurs within the corticospinal system in response to differential motor experience.

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