Experience-induced changes of dendritic spine densities in the prefrontal and sensory cortex: Correlation with developmental time windows

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 802-808

  Bock, Jörg ^a   Gruss, Michael ^a   Becker, Susann ^a   Braun, Katharina ^a  

^a OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Development; Endocrine systems; Limbic; Prefrontal; Stress

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CINGULATE GYRUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; DENDRITIC SPINE; ENDOCRINE FUNCTION; EXPERIENCE; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; LIMBIC CORTEX; MALE; MATERNAL DEPRIVATION; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; RAT; SENSORY CORTEX; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; STRESS;

ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; CORTICOSTERONE; DENDRITIC SPINES; GYRUS CINGULI; HYPOTHALAMO-HYPOPHYSEAL SYSTEM; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MALE; ORGAN SIZE; PITUITARY-ADRENAL SYSTEM; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PYRAMIDAL CELLS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SOCIAL ISOLATION; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 18844422146     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhh181     Document Type: Article

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