Somatosensory Cortex: Structural Alterations following Early Injury to Sense Organs

By H. van der Loos, T. Woolsey. 1973

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Neural plasticity across the lifespan (2016, background): “For example, input from facial whiskers is needed for full differentiation of rodent somatosensory cortex.(24) And, if shortly after birth a piece of visual cortex is transplanted to somatosensory cortex in rodents, the transplanted tissue loses many features of visual cortex and gains features of s”
Critical period regulation. (2004, background): “The anatomical shrinkage of deprived cortical barrels is strictly limited to whisker cauterization before the end of the first postnatal week (Van der Loos & Woolsey 1973).”
Naturalistic experience transforms sensory maps in the adult cortex of caged animals (2004, background): “Although the gross morphology of the layer IV barrel map can be markedly altered, this effect is strictly limited to the first week of postnatal lif”
Development‐based compartmentalization of the Drosophila central brain (2010, background): “The barrels of the rodent somatosensory cortex are prototypical neuropile compartments (Van der Loos and Woolsey, 1973; Woolsey et al., 1975; Inan and Crair, 2007).”
ind the blind brain to understand the sighted one ! Is there a upramodal cortical functional architecture ? (2014, unknown): “According to the Protocortex hypothesis (O’Leary, 1989; Van der Loos and Woolsey, 1973) neocortical areas are formed as a result of extrinsic signals coming from the thalamocortical afferent neurons (TCAs) that project from distinct thalamus nuclei to specific cortical portions.”