Post-Lesion Neural Plasticity
By: edited by Hans Flohr
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published: 1988
Place of publication: Berlin, Heidelberg
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Number of pages: 708
ISBN-13: 9783642738517; 9783642738494
Subjects: Medicine; Neurosciences; Neurology; Cytology
Other titles: Proceedings of a Symposium held at the University of Bremen in August 1987 as a Satellite Meeting of the Second World Congress of Neuroscience
Description: Neural networks are not rigidly wired but rather highly plastic structures, the functional architecture of which can be actively reorganized in response to external or internal events. Lesions of such networks induce plastic processes which in time may lead to a recovery of the initially disrupted function. This type of neural plasticity is the main focus of the book, which presents a broad spectrum of experimental paradigms for lesion-induced plasticity as in the spinal cord, the vestibular, oculomotor, visual and olfactory system, the cerebellum and the cerebral cortex, including recent methodological developments. Concepts and perspectives in understanding neural plasticity are reported in reviews and original research reports and are thoroughly discussed.
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Table of contents: title: Cellular and Molecular Mechanisms of Lesion-Induced Plastic Processes; title: CNS Development and Lesions; title: Lesions to Specific CNS Subsystems: Spinal Cord; title: Lesions to Specific CNS Subsystems: Vestibular System; title: Lesions to Specific CNS Subsystems: Cerebellum and Oculomotor System; title: Lesions to Specific CNS Subsystems: Visual System; title: Lesions to Specific CNS Subsystems: Somatosensory Cortex, Motor Cortex, Basal Ganglia; title: Lesions to Specific CNS Subsystems: Auditory System, Olfactory System; title: Pharmacology of CNS Injury.