Abstract #4089

Correlation of striatal remodeling with changes in song performance: a longitudinal diffusion tensor imaging study of adult male zebra finches

Julie Hamaide¹, Kristina Lukacova^1,2, Lubica Kubikova², Marleen Verhoye¹, and Annemie Van der Van der Linden¹

¹Department of Biomedical Sciences, Bio-Imaging Lab, University of Antwerp, Wilrijk, Belgium, ²Institute of Animal Biochemistry and Genetics, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia

In vivo diffusion tensor neuroimaging of adult male zebra finches was used to longitudinally monitor the effects of bilateral neurotoxic lesioning of a striatal component of the song control network and to explore possible causal relationships between the observed neuroplastic changes and specific alterations in song performance.

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