Neural plasticity : the effects of environment on the development of the cerebral cortex /

Neural plasticity : the effects of environment on the development of the cerebral cortex /

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Author / Creator:	Huttenlocher, Peter R.
Imprint:	Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, ©2002.
Description:	1 online resource (274 pages) : illustrations
Language:	English
Series:	Perspectives in cognitive neuroscience Perspectives in cognitive neuroscience.
Subject:	Developmental neurophysiology. Neuroplasticity. Cerebral cortex. Cerebral Cortex -- physiology. Neuronal Plasticity. Cerebral cortex. Developmental neurophysiology. Neuroplasticity.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11198002

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ISBN:	9780674038936 0674038932 9780674007437 0674007433
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-263) and indexes. English. Print version record.
Summary:	Annotation Neural plasticity--the brain's ability to change in response to normal developmental processes, experience, and injury--is a critically important phenomenon for both neuroscience and psychology. Increasing evidence about the extent of plasticity--long past the supposedly critical first three years--has recently emerged. Neural Plasticity offers the first succinct and lucid integration of this research and its implications. Pointing out the negative and the positive consequences of plasticity, Peter Huttenlocher describes plasticity in children and adults (in normal aging and in response to trauma), in sensory systems, the motor cortex, higher cortical functions, and language development, proceeding system by system, and paying particular attention to the cerebral cortex. One of the book's strengths is its range of references, not only to studies on human subjects but to the experimental study of animal models as well. This book will be a unique contribution to research and to the literature on clinical neuroscience.
Other form:	Print version: Huttenlocher, Peter R. Neural plasticity. Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, ©2002 0674007433 9780674007437

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Neuroanatomical Substrates: Early Developmental Events
2. Synaptogenesis
3. Methods for the Study of Functional Plasticity
4. Plasticity in Sensory Systems
5. Plasticity in the Motor Cortex
6. Plasticity in the Development of Language
7. Plasticity in Elective Brain Functions
8. Adult Plasticity
9. Summing Up
10. The Practical Relevance of the Findings from Developmental Neurobiology
References
Index