Re-opening Windows: Manipulating Critical Periods for Brain Development.
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SUBMITTER: Hensch TK
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3574806 | biostudies-other | 2012 Jul
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Re-opening Windows: Manipulating Critical Periods for Brain Development.
Hensch Takao K TK Bilimoria Parizad M PM
Cerebrum : the Dana forum on brain science 20120701
The brain acquires certain skills-from visual perception to language-during critical windows, specific times in early life when the brain is actively shaped by environmental input. Scientists like Takao K. Hensch are now discovering pathways in animal models through which these windows might be re-opened in adults, thus re-awakening a brain's youth-like plasticity. Such research has implications for brain injury repair, sensory recovery, and neurodevelopmental disorder treatment. In addition, wh ...[more]
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