Differential emotional experience leads to pruning of dendritic spines in the forebrain of domestic chicks

Neural Plasticity

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 17-27

  Bock, Jörg ^a   Braun, Katharina ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR NEUROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Functional maturation; Juvenile learning; Social separation; Synaptic plasticity

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CHICKEN; CONFERENCE PAPER; DENDRITIC SPINE; EMOTION; FOREBRAIN; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PERINATAL PERIOD; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT;

EID: 0032323579     PISSN: 20905904     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/NP.1998.17     Document Type: Conference Paper

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