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Experience-induced interocular plasticity of vision in infancy.

Wayne W Tschetter1, Robert M Douglas, Glen T Prusky

  • 1Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Burke Medical Research Institute, Weill Cornell Medical College White Plains, NY, USA.

Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience
|July 2, 2011
PubMed
Summary

Monocular deprivation (MD) in infant rats, combined with visual experience, can cause lasting vision loss in both eyes. This early-onset amblyopia, driven by experience-dependent cortical plasticity, occurs sooner than previously understood.

Keywords:
critical periodinfancymonocular deprivationoptokineticoptomotorplasticityvisual cortex

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