Environmental enrichment mitigates the impact of ancestral stress on motor skill and corticospinal tract plasticity

•Ancestral stress impaired skilled walking abilities in rats.•Ancestral stress reduced axonal density of corticospinal projections.•Enriched environment mitigated adverse consequences of ancestral stress in the motor system. An adverse fetal environment in utero has been associated with long-term al...

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