Experience-dependent structural plasticity in the adult human brain

Trends in Cognitive Sciences

Volumn 15, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 475-482

  May, Arne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN FUNCTIONS; BRAIN NETWORKS; BRAIN STRUCTURE; BRAIN VOLUME; DISEASE MANAGEMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; HUMAN BRAIN; STRUCTURAL ALTERATIONS; WHITE MATTER;

ANIMALS; DISEASES;

BRAIN;

ALPHA AMINO 3 HYDROXY 5 METHYL 4 ISOXAZOLEPROPIONIC ACID; BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID; NERVE GROWTH FACTOR;

ANGIOGENESIS; BACKACHE; BASAL GANGLION; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN INJURY; CELL ACTIVATION; CELL DENSITY; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL SIZE; CHRONIC PAIN; CINGULATE GYRUS; COGNITION; COHORT ANALYSIS; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DENDRITIC CELL; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EXERCISE; EXPERIENCE; FIBROMYALGIA; GENE EXPRESSION; GRAY MATTER; HEREDITY; HUMAN; HUNTINGTON CHOREA; INSULA; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; IRRITABLE COLON; LEARNING; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MEMORY; MICROGLIA; MYELINATION; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROPATHIC PAIN; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ORBITAL CORTEX; OSTEOARTHRITIS; PARIETAL CORTEX; PARIETAL LOBE; PARKINSON DISEASE; PHANTOM PAIN; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PONS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; POSTERIOR PARIETAL CORTEX; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; REVIEW; SOMATOSENSORY STIMULATION; SYNAPSE; TEMPORAL CORTEX; THALAMUS; VISUOMOTOR COORDINATION; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY; WHITE MATTER; WRITER'S CRAMP;

ADULT; AGING; BRAIN; COGNITION; HUMANS; LEARNING; NERVE NET; NEURONAL PLASTICITY;

EID: 80053131125     PISSN: 13646613     EISSN: 1879307X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tics.2011.08.002     Document Type: Review

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