A brain adaptation view of plasticity: Is synaptic plasticity an overly limited concept?

Progress in Brain Research

Volumn 138, Issue , 2002, Pages 91-108

  Grossman, Aaron W ^a   Churchill, James D ^a   Bates, Kathy E ^a   Kleim, Jeffrey A ^b   Greenough, William T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LETHBRIDGE   (Canada)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; BRAIN BLOOD VESSEL; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CONFERENCE PAPER; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; LEARNING; MEMORY; MORPHOLOGY; MYELINATION; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 0036456556     PISSN: 00796123     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0079-6123(02)38073-7     Document Type: Conference Paper

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