Synaptic development of the cerebral cortex: Implications for learning, memory, and mental illness

Progress in Brain Research

Volumn 102, Issue C, 1994, Pages 227-243

  Rakic, Pasko ^a   Bourgeois, Jean Pierre ^b   Goldman Rakic, Patricia S ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CONFERENCE PAPER; HUMAN; LEARNING; MEMORY; MENTAL DISEASE; MONKEY; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYNAPTOGENESIS;

EID: 0028114577     PISSN: 00796123     EISSN: 18757855     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0079-6123(08)60543-9     Document Type: Article

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