Environmental enrichment causes a global potentiation of neuronal responses across stimulus complexity and lamina of sensory cortex

Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue JUL, 2013, Pages

  Alwis, Dasuni S ^a   Rajan, Ramesh ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Barrel cortex; EE; Electrophysiology; Hyperexcitability

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL ENRICHMENT; EVOKED RESPONSE; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; HABITUATION; INHIBITORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; MALE; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; RAT; SENSORY CORTEX; SENSORY STIMULATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VIBRISSA; WAKEFULNESS;

EID: 84880579854     PISSN: 16625102     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fncel.2013.00124     Document Type: Article

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