The plastic human brain cortex.

By Alvaro Pascual-Leone, Amir Amedi, Felipe Fregni, Lotfi B. Merabet. 2005

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Subfields: Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Cognitive Neuroscience, Neurology

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Born to Learn: the Inspiration, Progress, and Future of Evolved Plastic Artificial Neural Networks (2017, background): “, 2010): it occurs primarily during development, but there is evidence that it continues well into adulthood (Pascual-Leone et al., 2005).”
Effects of memory training on cortical thickness in the elderly (2010, background): “Accumulating evidence suggests that the brain's potential to adapt and change is life-long (Johansson, 2004; Pascual-Leone et al., 2005).”
Flexibility and Stability in Sensory Processing Revealed Using Visual-to-Auditory Sensory Substitution (2014, result): “To begin with, evidence of crossmodal responses in sensory cortices is not consistent across studies [there is no doubt, however, that in the blind for instance, V1 shows robust crossmodal responses (Cohen et al. 1997; Bavelier and Neville 2002; Merabet et al. 2005; Pascual-Leone et al. 2005)].”
How Visual Is the Visual Cortex? Comparing Connectional and Functional Fingerprints between Congenitally Blind and Sighted Individuals (2015, background): “…et al., 1996, 1998; Cohen et al., 1997; Büchel et al., 1998; Burton et al., 2002, Burton, 2003; Amedi et al., 2003; Lewis et al., 2010; for reviews, see Merabet et al., 2005; Pascual-Leone et al., 2005) have shown that visual input has a critical role in shaping early visual cortical function.”
A new perspective on market dynamics (2014, background): “…the ability of organisms to alter their phenotypes (observable characteristics) in response to changes in the environment (West-Eberhard, 1989), and ‘‘neuroplasticity,’’ the capability of the cerebral cortex to alter its physical structure and functional organization (Pascual-Leone et al., 2005).”
Hippocampal plasticity in response to exercise in schizophrenia. (2010, background): “These clinical features of illness may relate to an impairment of neural plasticity or mechanisms of reorganizing brain function in response to a challenge.(2) Adult neurogenesis is one component of plasticity.”
The Occipital Cortex in the Blind (2005, methodology): “Contradicting the latter view is evidence that blind individuals (as compared with sighted controls) show superior skills in tasks involving touch andhearing(Gougoux,Zatorre,Lassonde,Voss,L Pascual-Leone,Amedi,Fregni,M Rauschecker, 1995; Roder, & Neville, 2003).”
Social Networks and Cognition (2020, background): “However, research over the last two decades has overturned that conventional wisdom,instead demonstrating that neuroplasticity (i.e.,the ability of the brain to change,forming and reorganizing its synaptic connections) is present throughout the life course (Pascual-Leone et al. 2005).”
Training-induced structural changes in the adult human brain. (2008, background): “We also consider that the extent of plastic reorganisation is conditional on the relevance of the alterations for the individual and can result either in beneficial or maladaptive behavioural consequences [85].”
Removing brakes on adult brain plasticity: from molecular to behavioral interventions (2010, background): “While direct pharmacological manipulations in humans are theoretically appealing, indiscriminately tampering with brakes on plasticity throughout the brain may cause more harm than good (see Pascual-Leone et al., 2005 for the two sides of plasticity).”
Multisensory Stimulation in Stroke Rehabilitation (2012, background): “That mental training can improve motor function and alter cortical representation areas is well documented in healthy individuals (Pascual-Leone et al., 2005; Nyberg et al., 2006; Olsson et al., 2008).”
Neural Reorganization Following Sensory Loss: The Opportunity Of Change (2009, background): “Thus, it is possible that the unmasking of pre-existing connections and shifts in connectivity might underlie rapid, early plastic changes that can lead, if sustained and reinforced, to slower but more permanent structural changes, such as dendritic arborization, sprouting and growth with rewiring o”
Plasticity of multisensory dorsal stream functions: Evidence from congenitally blind and sighted adults (2010, background): “Early sensory experience might unmask and strengthen pre-existing cortical connections or establish new ones that compensate for the lack of vision (cf., Pascual-Leone et al., 2005).”
Pulling back the curtain on heritability studies: biosocial criminology in the postgenomic era (2014, background): “Indeed, simply imagining oneself playing a simple five-note sequence repeatedly on the piano has been shown to increase the space in the motor cortex devoted to the fingers (Pascual-Leone et al., 2005).”