Amblyopia: Background to the special issue on stroke recovery

Developmental Psychobiology

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 224-238

  Maurer, Daphne ^a,b   Hensch, Takao K ^c,d  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Amblyopia; Deprivation; Plasticity; Recovery; Sensitive period

Indexed keywords

AMBLYOPIA; ANIMAL; BINOCULAR VISION; HUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; SENSORY DEPRIVATION;

AMBLYOPIA; ANIMALS; HUMANS; SENSORY DEPRIVATION; VISION, BINOCULAR;

ANIMALIA; RODENTIA;

EID: 84858189435     PISSN: 00121630     EISSN: 10982302     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dev.21022     Document Type: Review

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