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SUBMITTER: Wu KN
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3431433 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Wu Keng Nei KN Tan Bruce K BK Howard James D JD Conley David B DB Gottfried Jay A JA
Nature neuroscience 20120812 9
Ongoing sensory input is critical for shaping internal representations of the external world. Conversely, a lack of sensory input can profoundly perturb the formation of these representations. The olfactory system is particularly vulnerable to sensory deprivation, owing to the widespread prevalence of allergic, viral and chronic rhinosinusitis, but how the brain encodes and maintains odor information under such circumstances remains poorly understood. Here we combined functional magnetic resonan ...[more]