Ian Q. Whishaw

Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of Lethbridge

Affiliated withUniversity of Lethbridge Canadian Centre for Behavioural Neuroscience, University of Lethbridge

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JoVE Journal Publications

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Is there an optimal age for recovery from motor cortex lesions? II. behavioural and anatomical consequences of unilateral motor cortex lesions in perinatal, infant, and adult rats. Restorative neurology and neuroscience\| PubMed ID: 11490078	2000
Quantification of a single exploratory trip reveals hippocampal formation mediated dead reckoning. Journal of neuroscience methods\| PubMed ID: 11772435	2002
DREAM is a critical transcriptional repressor for pain modulation. Cell\| PubMed ID: 11792319	2002
Impaired spatial performance in rats with retrosplenial lesions: importance of the spatial problem and the rat strain in identifying lesion effects in a swimming pool. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience\| PubMed ID: 11826144	2002
Rats can track odors, other rats, and themselves: implications for the study of spatial behavior. Behavioural brain research\| PubMed ID: 11844585	2002
Impaired dodging in food-conflict following fimbria-fornix transection in rats: a novel hippocampal formation deficit. Brain research bulletin\| PubMed ID: 11927357	2002
Cortical and subcortical lesions impair skilled walking in the ladder rung walking test: a new task to evaluate fore- and hindlimb stepping, placing, and co-ordination. Journal of neuroscience methods\| PubMed ID: 11992668	2002
Animal models of neurological deficits: how relevant is the rat? Nature reviews. Neuroscience\| PubMed ID: 12094213	2002
Quantitative and qualitative impairments in skilled reaching in the mouse (Mus musculus) after a focal motor cortex stroke. Stroke; a journal of cerebral circulation\| PubMed ID: 12105368	2002
Impairment of pronation, supination, and body co-ordination in reach-to-grasp tasks in human Parkinson's disease (PD) reveals homology to deficits in animal models. Behavioural brain research\| PubMed ID: 12110450	2002
Absence of impairments or recovery mediated by the uncrossed pyramidal tract in the rat versus enduring deficits produced by the crossed pyramidal tract. Behavioural brain research\| PubMed ID: 12191820	2002
Place and matching-to-place spatial learning affected by rat inbreeding (Dark-Agouti, Fischer 344) and albinism (Wistar, Sprague-Dawley) but not domestication (wild rat vs. Long-Evans, Fisch... Behavioural brain research\| PubMed ID: 12191833	2002
Vestibular information is required for dead reckoning in the rat. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience\| PubMed ID: 12427858	2002
Variation in visual acuity within pigmented, and between pigmented and albino rat strains. Behavioural brain research\| PubMed ID: 12429395	2002
Long-Evans rats have a larger cortical topographic representation of movement than Fischer-344 rats: a microstimulation study of motor cortex in naÃ¯ve and skilled reaching-trained rats. Brain research bulletin\| PubMed ID: 12431749	2002
Fimbria-fornix lesions disrupt the dead reckoning (homing) component of exploratory behavior in mice. Learning & memory (Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y.)\| PubMed ID: 12464698	2002
On the origins of autobiographical memory. Behavioural brain research\| PubMed ID: 12527442	2003
A novel skilled-reaching impairment in paw supination on the "good" side of the hemi-Parkinson rat improved with rehabilitation. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience\| PubMed ID: 12533618	2003
Cholinergic and serotonergic neocortical projection lesions given singly or in combination cause only mild impairments on tests of skilled movement in rats: evaluation of a model of dementia... Brain research\| PubMed ID: 12706251	2003
Distinct forelimb and hind limb stepping impairments in unilateral dopamine-depleted rats: use of the rotorod as a method for the qualitative analysis of skilled walking. Journal of neuroscience methods\| PubMed ID: 12788498	2003
Acute alcohol administration improves skilled reaching success in intact but not 6-OHDA dopamine depleted rats: a subsystems analysis of the motoric and anxiolytic effects of alcohol. Behavioural brain research\| PubMed ID: 12798278	2003
Odor tracking in rats with orbital frontal lesions. Behavioral neuroscience\| PubMed ID: 12802889	2003
NMDA lesions of Ammon's horn and the dentate gyrus disrupt the direct and temporally paced homing displayed by rats exploring a novel environment: evidence for a role of the hippocampus in d... The European journal of neuroscience\| PubMed ID: 12911747	2003
Long-Evans and Sprague-Dawley rats have similar skilled reaching success and limb representations in motor cortex but different movements: some cautionary insights into the selection of rat ... Behavioural brain research\| PubMed ID: 14529819	2003
Independent digit movements and precision grip patterns in 1-5-month-old human infants: hand-babbling, including vacuous then self-directed hand and digit movements, precedes targeted reachi... Neuropsychologia\| PubMed ID: 14572524	2003
Complete and partial lesions of the pyramidal tract in the rat affect qualitative measures of skilled movements: impairment in fixations as a model for clumsy behavior. Neural plasticity\| PubMed ID: 14640310	2003
Did a change in sensory control of skilled movements stimulate the evolution of the primate frontal cortex? Behavioural brain research\| PubMed ID: 14643457	2003
Experience and cortical control over the pubertal transition to rougher play fighting in rats. Behavioural brain research\| PubMed ID: 14739011	2004
The topography of three-dimensional exploration: a new quantification of vertical and horizontal exploration, postural support, and exploratory bouts in the cylinder test. Behavioural brain research\| PubMed ID: 15084428	2004
Impaired place navigation in place and matching-to-place swimming pool tasks follows both retrosplenial cortex lesions and cingulum bundle lesions in rats. Hippocampus\| PubMed ID: 15098727	2004
Precision grasps of children and young and old adults: individual differences in digit contact strategy, purchase pattern, and digit posture. Behavioural brain research\| PubMed ID: 15302117	2004
Sequential control of navigation by locale and taxon cues in the Morris water task. Behavioural brain research\| PubMed ID: 15313026	2004
Posterior neocortical (visual cortex) lesions in the rat impair matching-to-place navigation in a swimming pool: a reevaluation of cortical contributions to spatial behavior using a new asse... Behavioural brain research\| PubMed ID: 15325784	2004
Posterior neocortical (visual cortex) lesions in the rat impair matching-to-place navigation in a swimming pool: a reevaluation of cortical contributions to spatial behavior using a new asse... Behavioural brain research\| PubMed ID: 15364476	2004
A reaffirmation of the retrosplenial contribution to rodent navigation: reviewing the influences of lesion, strain, and task. Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews\| PubMed ID: 15465136	2004
Skilled reaching impairments from the lateral frontal cortex component of middle cerebral artery stroke: a qualitative and quantitative comparison to focal motor cortex lesions in rats. Behavioural brain research\| PubMed ID: 15474657	2005
Preserved ipsilateral-to-lesion motor map organization in the unilateral 6-OHDA-treated rat model of Parkinson's disease. Brain research\| PubMed ID: 15476704	2004
Anesthetized Long Evans rats show similar protein expression and long-term potentiation as Fischer 344 rats but reduced short-term potentiation in motor cortex. Brain research\| PubMed ID: 15533310	2004
A masculinized skeletomusculature is not necessary for male-typical patterns of food-protective movement. Hormones and behavior\| PubMed ID: 15579265	2005
Neonatal and pubertal, but not adult, ovarian steroids are necessary for the development of female-typical patterns of dodging to protect a food item. Behavioral neuroscience\| PubMed ID: 15598138	2004
Evidence for bilateral control of skilled movements: ipsilateral skilled forelimb reaching deficits and functional recovery in rats follow motor cortex and lateral frontal cortex lesions. The European journal of neuroscience\| PubMed ID: 15610177	2004
Nicotine stimulates dendritic arborization in motor cortex and improves concurrent motor skill but impairs subsequent motor learning. Synapse (New York, N.Y.)\| PubMed ID: 15635590	2005
Unilateral frontal lobe contusion and forelimb function: chronic quantitative and qualitative impairments in reflexive and skilled forelimb movements in rats. Journal of neurotrauma\| PubMed ID: 15684651	2004
The development of spatial capacity in piloting and dead reckoning by infant rats: use of the huddle as a home base for spatial navigation. Developmental psychobiology\| PubMed ID: 15832318	2005
Pallidal deep brain stimulation and L-dopa do not improve qualitative aspects of skilled reaching in Parkinson's disease. Behavioural brain research\| PubMed ID: 15836914	2005
Movements of exploration intact in rats with hippocampal lesions. Behavioural brain research\| PubMed ID: 15904983	2005
Sexually dimorphic postural adjustments are used in a skilled reaching task in the rat. Behavioural brain research\| PubMed ID: 16023226	2005
Limits on recovery in the corticospinal tract of the rat: partial lesions impair skilled reaching and the topographic representation of the forelimb in motor cortex. Brain research bulletin\| PubMed ID: 16023917	2005
Home bases formed to visual cues but not to self-movement (dead reckoning) cues in exploring hippocampectomized rats. The European journal of neuroscience\| PubMed ID: 16262675	2005
Bilateral alteration in stepping pattern after unilateral motor cortex injury: a new test strategy for analysis of skilled limb movements in neurological mouse models. Journal of neuroscience methods\| PubMed ID: 16309746	2006
Motor deficits in Parkinsonian reaching: dopa-sensitivity influenced by real-world task constraint. Journal of motor behavior\| PubMed ID: 16436362	2006
Play fighting in androgen-insensitive tfm rats: evidence that androgen receptors are necessary for the development of adult playful attack and defense. Developmental psychobiology\| PubMed ID: 16489596	2006
Motor activity (exploration) and formation of home bases in mice (C57BL/6) influenced by visual and tactile cues: modification of movement distribution, distance, location, and speed. Physiology & behavior\| PubMed ID: 16530235	2006
The exploratory behavior of rats in an open environment optimizes security. Behavioural brain research\| PubMed ID: 16678279	2006
Parkinsonian deficits in sensory integration for postural control: temporal response to changes in visual input. Parkinsonism & related disorders\| PubMed ID: 16720099	2006
Changes in the kinematic structure and non-kinematic features of movements during skilled reaching after stroke: a Laban Movement Analysis in two case studies. Journal of neuroscience methods\| PubMed ID: 16766042	2006
Movement characteristics support a role for dead reckoning in organizing exploratory behavior. Animal cognition\| PubMed ID: 16767471	2006
Pharmacological manipulations of food protection behavior in rats: evidence for dopaminergic contributions to time perception during a natural behavior. Brain research\| PubMed ID: 16890923	2006
Sexually dimorphic postural adjustments during vertical behaviour are altered in a unilateral 6-OHDA rat model of Parkinson's disease. Behavioural brain research\| PubMed ID: 16930735	2006
Parallel stages of learning and recovery of skilled reaching after motor cortex stroke: "oppositions" organize normal and compensatory movements. Behavioural brain research\| PubMed ID: 17049628	2006
Attempt-dependent decrease in skilled reaching characterizes the acute postsurgical period following a forelimb motor cortex lesion: an experimental demonstration of learned nonuse in the ra... Behavioural brain research\| PubMed ID: 17346809	2007
Similar development of cued and learned home bases in control and hippocampal-damaged rats in an open field exploratory task. Hippocampus\| PubMed ID: 17372977	2007
Parkinsonian deficits in context-dependent regulation of standing postural control. Neuroscience letters\| PubMed ID: 17403570	2007
No improvement by amphetamine on learned non-use, attempts, success or movement in skilled reaching by the rat after motor cortex stroke. The European journal of neuroscience\| PubMed ID: 17553013	2007
The point of entry contributes to the organization of exploratory behavior of rats on an open field: an example of spontaneous episodic memory. Behavioural brain research\| PubMed ID: 17590451	2007
A golgi analysis of cortical pyramidal cells in the unilateral parkinson rat: absence of change in the affected hemisphere vs hypertrophy in the intact hemisphere. Restorative neurology and neuroscience\| PubMed ID: 17726267	2007
Recovery of skilled reaching following motor cortex stroke: do residual corticofugal fibers mediate compensatory recovery? The European journal of neuroscience\| PubMed ID: 18028116	2007
"Learned baduse" limits recovery of skilled reaching for food after forelimb motor cortex stroke in rats: a new analysis of the effect of gestures on success. Behavioural brain research\| PubMed ID: 18155782	2008
The problem of relating plasticity and skilled reaching after motor cortex stroke in the rat. Behavioural brain research\| PubMed ID: 18282620	2008
Cineradiographic (video X-ray) analysis of skilled reaching in a single pellet reaching task provides insight into relative contribution of body, head, oral, and forelimb movement in rats. Behavioural brain research\| PubMed ID: 18514337	2008
Visual guidance for hand advance but not hand withdrawal in a reach-to-eat task in adult humans: reaching is a composite movement. Journal of motor behavior\| PubMed ID: 18628110	2008
Intact intracortical microstimulation (ICMS) representations of rostral and caudal forelimb areas in rats with quinolinic acid lesions of the medial or lateral caudate-putamen in an animal m... Brain research bulletin\| PubMed ID: 18639744	2008
Bilateral impairments of skilled reach-to-eat in early Parkinson's disease patients presenting with unilateral or asymmetrical symptoms. Behavioural brain research\| PubMed ID: 18692094	2008
Motor cortex stroke impairs individual digit movement in skilled reaching by the rat. The European journal of neuroscience\| PubMed ID: 18702702	2008
Transient middle cerebral artery occlusion disrupts the forelimb movement representations of rat motor cortex. The European journal of neuroscience\| PubMed ID: 18717732	2008
Hind limb stepping over obstacles in the horse guided by place-object memory. Behavioural brain research\| PubMed ID: 19071161	2009
Nicotine does not improve recovery from learned nonuse nor enhance constraint-induced therapy after motor cortex stroke in the rat. Behavioural brain research\| PubMed ID: 19100291	2009
Both compensation and recovery of skilled reaching following small photothrombotic stroke to motor cortex in the rat. Experimental neurology\| PubMed ID: 19409894	2009
Similar hand shaping in reaching-for-food (skilled reaching) in rats and humans provides evidence of homology in release, collection, and manipulation movements. Behavioural brain research\| PubMed ID: 19520119	2009
Righting elicited by novel or familiar auditory or vestibular stimulation in the haloperidol-treated rat: rat posturography as a model to study anticipatory motor control. Journal of neuroscience methods\| PubMed ID: 19559052	2009
Individual differences in skilled reaching for food related to increased number of gestures: evidence for goal and habit learning of skilled reaching. Behavioral neuroscience\| PubMed ID: 19634947	2009
Hand shaping in the rat: conserved release and collection vs. flexible manipulation in overground walking, ladder rung walking, cylinder exploration, and skilled reaching. Behavioural brain research\| PubMed ID: 19716849	2010
Music attenuates excessive visual guidance of skilled reaching in advanced but not mild Parkinson's disease. PloS one\| PubMed ID: 19718260	2009
Hippocampal damage produces retrograde but not anterograde amnesia for a cued location in a spontaneous exploratory task in rats. Hippocampus\| PubMed ID: 19957337	2010
Development of collection precedes targeted reaching: resting shapes of the hands and digits in 1-6-month-old human infants. Behavioural brain research\| PubMed ID: 20451560	2010
Challenging context affects standing reach kinematics among Parkinson's disease patients. Behavioural brain research\| PubMed ID: 20478337	2010
The functional origins of speech-related hand gestures. Behavioural brain research\| PubMed ID: 20573589	2010
Proximal movements compensate for distal forelimb movement impairments in a reach-to-eat task in Huntington's disease: new insights into motor impairments in a real-world skill. Neurobiology of disease\| PubMed ID: 21059390	2011
Drug treatment and familiar music aids an attention shift from vision to somatosensation in Parkinson's disease on the reach-to-eat task. Behavioural brain research\| PubMed ID: 21073905	2011
Reaching-to-eat in humans post-stroke: fluctuating components within a constant pattern. Behavioral neuroscience\| PubMed ID: 21133536	2010
Impaired arpeggio movement in skilled reaching by rubrospinal tract lesions in the rat: a behavioral/anatomical fractionation. Journal of neurotrauma\| PubMed ID: 21612320	2011
Subsystems of sensory attention for skilled reaching: Vision for transport and pre-shaping and somatosensation for grasping, withdrawal and release. Behavioural brain research\| PubMed ID: 21807029	2011
The use of rodent skilled reaching as a translational model for investigating brain damage and disease. Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews\| PubMed ID: 22227413	2011
The consummatory origins of visually guided reaching in human infants: A dynamic integration of whole-body and upper-limb movements. Behavioural brain research\| PubMed ID: 22326374	2012