Recovery in the Blink of an Eye

نویسنده

  • Takao K. Hensch
چکیده

Sensory deprivation sheds light on cortical plasticity mechanisms, but recovery of lost brain function may bear the greatest clinical relevance. Ramoa and colleagues now find that binocular recovery from monocular occlusion can be extraordinarily rapid, independent of protein synthesis, and precise. Reactivation of latent connections may then reverse amblyopia.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Neuron

دوره 48  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2005