Rachel P. Allred

Importance of behavioral manipulations and measures in rat models of brain damage and brain repair.

Unilateral ischemic sensorimotor cortical damage induces contralesional synaptogenesis and enhances skilled reaching with the ipsilateral forelimb in adult male rats.

Unilateral ischemic sensorimotor cortical damage in female rats: forelimb behavioral effects and dendritic structural plasticity in the contralateral homotopic cortex.

Maladaptive effects of learning with the less-affected forelimb after focal cortical infarcts in rats.

Motor skill training, but not voluntary exercise, improves skilled reaching after unilateral ischemic lesions of the sensorimotor cortex in rats.

The vermicelli handling test: a simple quantitative measure of dexterous forepaw function in rats.

Remodeling the brain with behavioral experience after stroke.

Experience--a double edged sword for restorative neural plasticity after brain damage.

The "good" limb makes the "bad" limb worse: experience-dependent interhemispheric disruption of functional outcome after cortical infarcts in rats.

Breeder and batch-dependent variability in the acquisition and performance of a motor skill in adult Long-Evans rats.