Critical-period plasticity in the visual cortex

Annual Review of Neuroscience

Volumn 35, Issue , 2012, Pages 309-330

  Levelt, Christiaan N ^a   Ḧubener, Mark ^b  

^a NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR NEUROSCIENCE   (Netherlands)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF NEUROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

experience dependent plasticity; monocular deprivation; mouse; ocular dominance; visual system

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; CANNABINOID RECEPTOR; CYCLIC AMP RESPONSIVE ELEMENT BINDING PROTEIN; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR; NERVE CELL ADHESION MOLECULE; PARVALBUMIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR OTX2;

BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; EPIGENETICS; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; EYE DOMINANCE; HUMAN; LEARNING; MONOCULAR DEPRIVATION; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE FIBER GROWTH; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RODENT; VISUAL CORTEX;

AGING; ANIMALS; CRITICAL PERIOD (PSYCHOLOGY); DOMINANCE, OCULAR; HUMANS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURAL INHIBITION; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 84862562765     PISSN: 0147006X     EISSN: 15454126     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-neuro-061010-113813     Document Type: Review

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