Neural Plasticity: The Effects of Environment on the Development of the Cerebral Cortex

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Peter R. Huttenlocher

Neural Plasticity

The Effects of Environment on the Development of the Cerebral Cortex

Peter R. Huttenlocher

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Harvard University Press
15 July 2002

Cognition & cognitive psychology; Politics & government; Neurology & clinical neurophysiology

Series: Perspectives in Cognitive Neuroscience

Neural plasticity--the brain's ability to change in response to normal developmental processes, experience, and injury--is a critically important phenomenon for both neuroscience and psychology. Increasing evidence about the extent of plasticity--long past the supposedly critical first three years--has recently emerged. Neural Plasticity offers the first succinct and lucid integration of this research and its implications.

Pointing out the negative and the positive consequences of plasticity, Peter Huttenlocher describes plasticity in children and adults (in normal aging and in response to trauma), in sensory systems, the motor cortex, higher cortical functions, and language development, proceeding system by system, and paying particular attention to the cerebral cortex. One of the book's strengths is its range of references, not only to studies on human subjects but to the experimental study of animal models as well. This book will be a unique contribution to research and to the literature on clinical neuroscience.

By: Peter R. Huttenlocher
Imprint: Harvard University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 235mm, Width: 156mm, Spine: 25mm
Weight: 567g
ISBN: 9780674007437
ISBN 10: 0674007433
Series: Perspectives in Cognitive Neuroscience
Pages: 286
Publication Date: 15 July 2002
Audience: Professional and scholarly , College/higher education , Professional & Vocational , Undergraduate , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Neuroanatomical Substrates: Early Developmental Events 2. Synaptogenesis 3. Methods for the Study of Functional Plasticity 4. Plasticity in Sensory Systems 5. Plasticity in the Motor Cortex 6. Plasticity in the Development of Language 7. Plasticity in Elective Brain Functions 8. Adult Plasticity 9. Summing Up 10. The Practical Relevance of the Findings from Developmental Neurobiology References Index

Peter R. Huttenlocher was Professor Emeritus and former Chief of Pediatric Neurology at the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine.