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Neurociencia: recableando el cerebro adulto
Michael B Calford1, Yuzo M Chino, Aniruddha Das
1School of Biomedical Sciences, The University of Newcastle, New South Wales 2308, Australia.
Nature
|November 11, 2005
Resumen
Este estudio cuestiona los hallazgos de que no hay reorganización cortical después de lesiones de la retina. Destaca que la resonancia magnética funcional dependiente del nivel de oxígeno en la sangre (IRMfOLD) es una medida poco confiable de la actividad neuronal, lo que sugiere que la plasticidad aún puede ocurrir.
Área de la Ciencia:
- La neurociencia es la neurociencia.
- Investigación de la corteza visual Investigación de la corteza visual
- Estudios de plasticidad Estudios de plasticidad.
Sus antecedentes:
- El análisis de la plasticidad neuronal requiere una medición precisa de la actividad neuronal de picos.
- Investigaciones anteriores indican una plasticidad cortical significativa después de las lesiones.
- Smirnakis y otros. no se informó de reorganización cortical en la corteza visual primaria adulta (V1) después de lesiones de la retina.
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