Faster perceptual learning through excitotoxic neurodegeneration

Current Biology

Volumn 22, Issue 20, 2012, Pages 1914-1917

  Beste, Christian ^a   Wascher, Edmund ^c   Dinse, Hubert R ^a   Saft, Carsten ^b  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^b ST JOSEF HOSPITAL   (Germany)

^c LEIBNIZ RESEARCH CENTRE FOR WORKING ENVIRONMENT AND HUMAN FACTORS   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; GENETICS; HUMAN; HUNTINGTON CHOREA; LEARNING; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; PHYSIOLOGY; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

ATTENTION; BRAIN; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; HUMANS; HUNTINGTON DISEASE; LEARNING; LONG-TERM POTENTIATION; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 84867875068     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2012.08.012     Document Type: Article

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