Enriched and deprived sensory experience induces structural changes and rewires connectivity during the postnatal Development of the brain

Neural Plasticity

Volumn 2012, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Bengoetxea, Harkaitz ^a   Ortuzar, Naiara ^a   Bulnes, Susana ^a   Rico Barrio, Irantzu ^a   Lafuente, José Vicente ^a   Argandoña, Enrike G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FRIBOURG   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL ENRICHMENT; HUMAN; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEUROPROTECTION; NONHUMAN; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; REVIEW; SENSORY CORTEX; SENSORY DEPRIVATION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL SYSTEM; ANIMAL; BRAIN; BRAIN CORTEX; ENVIRONMENT; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HISTOLOGY; NERVE TRACT; PHYSIOLOGY; RAT; SENSATION;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; CEREBRAL CORTEX; ENVIRONMENT; HUMANS; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; RATS; SENSATION; SENSORY DEPRIVATION; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 84864936421     PISSN: 20905904     EISSN: 16875443     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2012/305693     Document Type: Review

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