Environmental acoustic enrichment promotes recovery from developmentally degraded auditory cortical processing

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 34, Issue 16, 2014, Pages 5406-5415

  Zhu, Xiaoqing ^a   Wang, Fang ^a   Hu, Huifang ^a   Sun, Xinde ^a   Kilgard, Michael P ^b   Merzenich, Michael M ^c   Zhou, Xiaoming ^a  

^a B326 Science Building   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

BDNF; Environmental acoustic enrichment; Frequency discrimination performance; Frequency selectivity; Primary auditory cortex

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR; BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR 2A; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR 2B;

ACOUSTICS; ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; BEHAVIOR; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL PROCEDURES; ELECTROSTIMULATION; ENVIRONMENTAL ENRICHMENT; FEMALE; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE FUNCTION; NOISE POLLUTION; NONHUMAN; OPERANT BEHAVIORAL TEST; PRIMARY AUDITORY CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PURE TONE AUDIOMETRY; RAT; WESTERN BLOTTING;

BDNF; ENVIRONMENTAL ACOUSTIC ENRICHMENT; FREQUENCY DISCRIMINATION PERFORMANCE; FREQUENCY SELECTIVITY; PRIMARY AUDITORY CORTEX;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY DISEASES, CENTRAL; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; LONG-TERM POTENTIATION; MALE; NOISE; PREGNANCY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, GABA-A; RECEPTORS, N-METHYL-D-ASPARTATE; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION;

EID: 84899490601     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.5310-13.2014     Document Type: Article

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