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. This book is a unique contribution to research and to the literature on clinical neuroscience.
Über den Autor
Peter R. Huttenlocher is Professor of Pediatrics and Neurology and a member of the Committee on Neurobiology at the University of Chicago.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
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
Klappentext
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. < i>
