Compensatory plasticity at an identified synapse tunes a visuomotor pathway

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 27, Issue 17, 2007, Pages 4621-4633

  Rogers, Stephen M ^a   Krapp, Holger G ^a,b   Burrows, Malcolm ^a   Matheson, Thomas ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

DCMD; Homeostatic plasticity; Locust; Nonlinear transformation; Phenotypic plasticity; Sensory motor integration

Indexed keywords

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; SYNAPSE; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; VISUOMOTOR COORDINATION;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; EFFERENT PATHWAYS; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FEMALE; GRASSHOPPERS; HABITUATION, PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC; MALE; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; SYNAPSES; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 34247471310     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 02706474     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4615-06.2007     Document Type: Article

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