Environmental noise retards auditory cortical development

Science

Volumn 300, Issue 5618, 2003, Pages 498-502

  Chang, Edward F ^a   Merzenich, Michael M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC DEVICES; BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; NOISE POLLUTION; RISK ASSESSMENT;

AUDITORY CORTICAL DEVELOPMENT;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

CHILD DEVELOPMENT; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; NOISE; RISK FACTOR; RODENT;

ACOUSTICS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY NERVOUS SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NEWBORN; NOISE; NONHUMAN; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; AUDITORY CORTEX; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; NEURONS; NOISE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; TIME FACTORS;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA; RODENTIA;

EID: 0037453437     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1082163     Document Type: Article

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