Search Results - "Hensch, T. K"
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Inhibitory threshold for critical-period activation in primary visual cortex
Published in Nature (London) (09-03-2000)“…Neuronal circuits across several systems display remarkable plasticity to sensory input during postnatal development. Experience-dependent refinements are…”
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Genetic Otx2 mis-localization delays critical period plasticity across brain regions
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Local GABA Circuit Control of Experience-Dependent Plasticity in Developing Visual Cortex
Published in Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) (20-11-1998)“…Sensory experience in early life shapes the mammalian brain. An impairment in the activity-dependent refinement of functional connections within developing…”
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Otx2 binding to perineuronal nets persistently regulates plasticity in the mature visual cortex
Published in The Journal of neuroscience (04-07-2012)“…Specific transfer of (orthodenticle homeobox 2) Otx2 homeoprotein into GABAergic interneurons expressing parvalbumin (PV) is necessary and sufficient to open,…”
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Genetic Otx2 mis-localization delays critical period plasticity across brain regions
Published in Molecular psychiatry (01-05-2017)“…Accumulation of non-cell autonomous Otx2 homeoprotein in postnatal mouse visual cortex (V1) has been implicated in both the onset and closure of critical…”
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Critical period regulation
Published in Annual review of neuroscience (01-01-2004)“…Neuronal circuits are shaped by experience during critical periods of early postnatal life. The ability to control the timing, duration, and closure of these…”
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Differential effects of the Rac GTPase on Purkinje cell axons and dendritic trunks and spines
Published in Nature (London) (29-02-1996)“…Neurons contain distinct compartments including dendrites, dendritic spines, axons and synaptic terminals. The molecular mechanisms that generate and…”
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Oxidative stress-driven parvalbumin interneuron impairment as a common mechanism in models of schizophrenia
Published in Molecular psychiatry (01-07-2017)“…Parvalbumin inhibitory interneurons (PVIs) are crucial for maintaining proper excitatory/inhibitory balance and high-frequency neuronal synchronization. Their…”
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Genetic Otx2 mis-localization delays critical period plasticity across brain regions
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Experience-Dependent Pruning of Dendritic Spines in Visual Cortex by Tissue Plasminogen Activator
Published in Neuron (Cambridge, Mass.) (16-12-2004)“…Sensory experience physically rewires the brain in early postnatal life through unknown processes. Here, we identify a robust anatomical consequence of…”
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Columnar Architecture Sculpted by GABA Circuits in Developing Cat Visual Cortex
Published in Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) (12-03-2004)“…The mammalian visual cortex is organized into columns. Here, we examine cortical influences upon developing visual afferents in the cat by altering intrinsic…”
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Ocular Dominance Plasticity Under Metabotropic Glutamate Receptor Blockade
Published in Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) (26-04-1996)“…Occluding vision through one eye during a critical period in early life nearly abolishes responses to that eye in visual cortex. This phenomenon is mimicked by…”
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Separable Features of Visual Cortical Plasticity Revealed by N-Methyl-D-Aspartate Receptor 2A Signaling
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (04-03-2003)“…How individual receptive field properties are formed in the maturing sensory neocortex remains largely unknown. The shortening of N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA)…”
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Experience-Dependent Plasticity of Mouse Visual Cortex in the Absence of the Neuronal Activity-Dependent Marker egr1/zif268
Published in The Journal of neuroscience (15-12-2001)“…Neuronal activity elicits a rapid increase in the expression of several immediate early genes (IEGs). To clarify a role for IEG response in activity-dependent…”
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Experience-Dependent Plasticity without Long-Term Depression by Type 2 Metabotropic Glutamate Receptors in Developing Visual Cortex
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (22-01-2002)“…Synaptic depression is thought to underlie the loss of cortical responsiveness to an eye deprived of vision. Here, we establish a fundamental role for type 2…”
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Experience-Dependent Transfer of Otx2 Homeoprotein into the Visual Cortex Activates Postnatal Plasticity
Published in Cell (08-08-2008)“…Neural circuits are shaped by experience in early postnatal life. Distinct GABAergic connections within visual cortex determine the timing of the critical…”
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A Theory of the Transition to Critical Period Plasticity: Inhibition Selectively Suppresses Spontaneous Activity
Published in Neuron (Cambridge, Mass.) (02-10-2013)“…What causes critical periods (CPs) to open? For the best-studied case, ocular dominance plasticity in primary visual cortex in response to monocular…”
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Whisking Away Space in the Brain
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Critical period plasticity in local cortical circuits
Published in Nature reviews. Neuroscience (01-11-2005)“…Neuronal circuits in the brain are shaped by experience during 'critical periods' in early postnatal life. In the primary visual cortex, this…”
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Transcriptional Landscape of the Mammalian Genome
Published in Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) (02-09-2005)“…This study describes comprehensive polling of transcription start and termination sites and analysis of previously unidentified full-length complementary DNAs…”
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