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Basketball training increases striatum volume

Authors
 In Sung Park  ;  Kea Joo Lee  ;  Jong Woo Han  ;  Nam Joon Lee  ;  Won Teak Lee  ;  Kyung Ah Park  ;  Im Joo Rhyu 
Citation
 HUMAN MOVEMENT SCIENCE, Vol.30(1) : 56-62, 2011 
Journal Title
HUMAN MOVEMENT SCIENCE
ISSN
 0167-9457 
Issue Date
2011
MeSH
Athletic Performance/physiology* ; Basketball* ; Caudate Nucleus/anatomy & histology ; Dominance, Cerebral/physiology ; Humans ; Image Processing, Computer-Assisted* ; Imaging, Three-Dimensional* ; Magnetic Resonance Imaging* ; Male ; Neostriatum/anatomy & histology* ; Organ Size/physiology ; Practice (Psychology)* ; Putamen/anatomy & histology ; Reference Values ; Young Adult
Keywords
Sports ; Motor learning ; Coordination ; Plasticity ; Brain volumetry
Abstract
The striatum is associated with the learning and retention of motor skills. Several studies have shown that motor learning induces neuronal changes in the striatum. We investigated whether macroscopic change in striatum volume occurs in a segment of the human population who learned basketball-related motor skills and practiced them throughout their entire athletic life. Three-dimensional magnetic resonance imaging volumetry was performed in basketball players and healthy controls, and striatum volumes were compared based on basketball proficiency, region and side. We identified morphological enlargement in the striatum of basketball players in comparison with controls. Our results suggest that continued practice and repetitive performance of basketball-related motor skills may induce plastic structural changes in the human striatum.
Full Text
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0167945710001466
DOI
10.1016/j.humov.2010.09.001
Appears in Collections:
1. College of Medicine (의과대학) > Dept. of Anatomy (해부학교실) > 1. Journal Papers
Yonsei Authors
Park, Kyung Ah(박경아)
Lee, Won Taek(이원택) ORCID logo https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7348-9562
URI
https://ir.ymlib.yonsei.ac.kr/handle/22282913/92976
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