Developmental sensory experience balances cortical excitation and inhibition

Nature

Volumn 465, Issue 7300, 2010, Pages 932-936

  Dorrn, Anja L ^a,b   Yuan, Kexin ^b   Barker, Alison J ^b   Schreiner, Christoph E ^c   Froemke, Robert C ^b  

^a MAX DELBRÜCK CENTER FOR MOLECULAR MEDICINE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOACOUSTICS; BIOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN; HEARING; INHIBITION; LANGUAGE; NEONATE; NEUROLOGY; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED RESPONSE; HEARING; NONHUMAN; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RECEPTIVE FIELD; SENSORY STIMULATION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; AUDITORY CORTEX; ELECTRICAL SYNAPSES; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; NEURAL INHIBITION; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

RATTUS;

EID: 77953690620     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature09119     Document Type: Article

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