The Plastic Brain (eBook)

What is neural plasticity?.- Part I: Neural plasticity in learning and memory.- CREB at the crossroad of activity-dependent regulation of nervous system development and function.- Models of short term synaptic plasticity.- Plasticity in the interoceptive system.- Learning as a functional state of the brain: studies in wild-type and transgenic animals.- Part II: Neural plasticity in early postnatal development.- Bidirectional effects of mother-young contact on the maternal and neonatal brains.- Prenatal stress and neurodevelopmental plasticity: relevance to psychopathology.- Early postnatal development of somastostatinergic systems in brainstem respiratory network.- Part III: Neural plasticity in the respiratory rhythm.- Respiratory rhythm generation: The whole is greater than the sum of the parts.- The onset of the fetal respiratory rhythm: an emergent property triggered by chemosensory drive?.- Neurodevelopmental effects of serotonin on the brainstem respiratory network.- Neural network reconfigurations: The changes of the respiratory network by hypoxia as example.- Part IV: Damage-triggered neural plasticity.- Progenitors in the ependyma of the spinal cord: a potential resource for self-repair after injury.- IKD current in cold transduction and damage-triggered cold hypersensitivity.