Brain plasticity and environmental enrichment in Ts65Dn mice, an animal model for down syndrome

Neurocognitive Rehabilitation of Down Syndrome: The Early Years

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 71-84

  Golabek, Adam ^a   Jarząbek, Katarzyna ^b   Palminiello, Sonia ^c   Walus, Marius ^a   Rabe, Ausma ^a   Albertini, Giorgio ^c   Kida, Elizabeth ^a  

^a NEW YORK STATE INSTITUTE FOR BASIC RESEARCH IN DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES   (United States)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF BIALYSTOK   (Poland)

^c IRCCS SAN RAFFAELE PISANA   (Italy)

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DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511919299.006     Document Type: Chapter

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