Process of cortical network formation and impact of early brain damage

Current Opinion in Neurology

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 133-141

  Kiss, Jozsef Z ^a   Vasung, Lana ^b   Petrenko, Volodymyr ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

activity dependent plasticity; formation of cortical networks; GABAergic neurons; perinatal brain injury; prematurity

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID;

BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN DAMAGE; CELL MATURATION; CELL MIGRATION; CELL SURVIVAL; HUMAN; INTERNEURON; MICROGLIA; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE FIBER GROWTH; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NEUROIMAGING; NONHUMAN; PERINATAL PERIOD; PREMATURITY; REVIEW; SYNAPSE; THALAMOCORTICAL TRACT;

ANIMALS; BRAIN INJURIES; CEREBRAL CORTEX; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; HUMANS; INTERNEURONS; NERVE NET; PREMATURE BIRTH;

EID: 84896398232     PISSN: 13507540     EISSN: 14736551     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/WCO.0000000000000068     Document Type: Review

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