Los circuitos corticales transitorios coinciden con la actividad espontánea y sensorial durante el desarrollo

Zoltán Molnár1, Heiko J Luhmann2, Patrick O Kanold3,4

  • 1Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, Sherrington Building, University of Oxford, Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PT, UK. zoltan.moltan@dpag.ox.ac.uk luhmann@uni-mainz.de pkanold@jhu.edu.

Science (New York, N.Y.)
|October 16, 2020
PubMed
Resumen

La actividad cerebral temprana da forma al desarrollo de las redes corticales. Las interrupciones de esta actividad espontánea, especialmente durante el desarrollo temprano, pueden conducir a problemas neurológicos y psiquiátricos a largo plazo.

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