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Presents latest knowledge in order to reconcile conflicting data and to promote further progress
Reports on inhibitory plasticity that has a behavioral implication
Seeks to promote further studies to help clarify excitation-independent mechanisms underlying strengthening in inhibitory connections
Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
Neuroscience has long been focused on understanding neural plasticity in both development and adulthood. Experimental work in this area has focused almost entirely on plasticity at excitatory synapses. A growing body of evidence suggests that plasticity at inhibitory GABAergic and glycinergic synapses is of critical importance during both development and aging.
The book brings together the work of researchers investigating inhibitory plasticity at many levels of analysis and in several different preparations. This topic is of wide relevance across a number of different areas of research in neuroscience and neurology. Medical problems such as epilepsy, mental illness, drug abuse, and movement disorders can result from malfunctioning inhibitory circuits. Further, the maturation of inhibitory circuits may trigger the onset of critical periods of neural circuit plasticity, raising the possibility that such plastici periods could be reactivated for medical benefit by manipulating inhibitory circuitry.
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Editors and Affiliations
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Dept. Biology, Georgia State University, Atlanta, U.S.A.
Sarah L. Pallas
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Developmental Plasticity of Inhibitory Circuitry
Editors: Sarah L. Pallas
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-1243-5
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag US 2010
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4419-1242-8Published: 17 December 2009
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4899-8283-4Published: 09 September 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4419-1243-5Published: 09 December 2009
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 190
Topics: Neurosciences, Neurology, Developmental Biology, Neurobiology, Rehabilitation Medicine