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Neural Plasticity : The Effects of Environment on the Development of the Cerebral Cortex

By PETER R. HUTTENLOCHER (Author)

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ISBN : 9780674007437
Page : 286
Year of Publication : 2002    Edition : 0
Publisher : HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Subject : PSYCHOLOGY

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Description :

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.

Peter R. Huttenlocher is Professor of Pediatric and Neurology and member of the committee on Neurobiology at the University of Chicago.

Content :

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Neuroanatomical Substrates: Early Development 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