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SUBMITTER: Steinzeig A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6899674 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Steinzeig Anna A Cannarozzo Cecilia C Castrén Eero E
The European journal of neuroscience 20190808 10
Heightened neuronal plasticity expressed during early postnatal life has been thought to permanently decline once critical periods have ended. For example, monocular deprivation is able to shift ocular dominance in the mouse visual cortex during the first months of life, but this effect is lost later in life. However, various treatments, such as the antidepressant fluoxetine, can reactivate a critical period-like plasticity in the adult brain. When monocular deprivation is supplemented with chro ...[more]