Brain plasticity and mental processes: Cajal again

Nature Reviews Neuroscience

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 811-817

  DeFelipe, Javier ^a  

^a INSTITUTO CAJAL   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AWARDS AND PRIZES; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN FUNCTION; CELL MOTILITY; DENDRITIC SPINE; EXPERIMENT; GOLGI STAIN; HYPOTHESIS; MENTAL FUNCTION; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE INJURY; NERVOUS SYSTEM; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROSCIENCE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

BRAIN; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HUMANS; MENTAL PROCESSES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; NEURONS; NEUROSCIENCES; SILVER STAINING;

EID: 33748932680     PISSN: 1471003X     EISSN: 14710048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrn2005     Document Type: Review

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