Plasticity in the Somatosensory System of Developing and Mature Mammals - The Effects of Injury to the Central and Peripheral Nervous System
General Material Designation
[Book]
First Statement of Responsibility
by Peter J. Snow, Peter Wilson.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
Berlin, Heidelberg
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
1991
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
(xvi, 482 pages 139 illustrations)
SERIES
Series Title
Progress in sensory physiology, 11.
CONTENTS NOTE
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Introductory Remarks --;Plasticity in the Peripheral Somatosensory Nervous System --;Plasticity and the Mystacial Vibrissae of Rodents --;Plasticity and the Spinal Dorsal Horn (with Notes on Homologous Regions of th Trigeminal Nuclei) --;Plasticity and the Dorsal Column Nuclei --;Plasticity and the Somatosensory Thalamus --;Plasticity and the Somatosensory Cerebral Cortex --;Concluding Remarks --;References --;Subject Index.
SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
Text of Note
Rarely have the many mechanisms that might underlie neural plasticity been examined as explicitly as they are in this broad, lavishly illustrated treatment of plasticity in the somatosensory system.