Shaping the aging brain: Role of auditory input patterns in the emergence of auditory cortical impairments

Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience

Volumn 7, Issue SEP, 2013, Pages

  Kamal, Brishna ^a   Holman, Constance ^a   de Villers Sidani, Etienne ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

A1; Aging; Auditory; GABA; Inhibition; Noise; Parvalbumin; Plasticity

Indexed keywords

MYELIN; PARVALBUMIN;

ADULT ANIMAL; AGING; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY RESPONSE; BRAIN DEGENERATION; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN MAPPING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GROUPS BY AGE; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; INTERNEURON; NONHUMAN; PRIMARY AUDITORY CORTEX; RAT; SOUND INTENSITY;

EID: 84888092149     PISSN: 16625137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnsys.2013.00052     Document Type: Article

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