Alcohol
Volume 44, Issue 2 , Pages 185-194 , March 2010

Prenatal alcohol exposure reduces the size of the forelimb representation in motor cortex in rat: an intracortical microstimulation (ICMS) mapping study

Received 4 March 2009 ,Revised 24 October 2009 ,Accepted 24 October 2009.

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Alcohol
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