title: Development, critical period plasticity, and adult reorganizations of mammalian somatosensory systems.
abstract: This review covers recent progress in three major areas of investigation in somatosensory systems: development, developmental plasticity and functional reorganization. Important findings relate to the development of periphery-related patterning in thalamic afferents to somatosensory cortex, the controversial role of neural activity in the development and plasticity of periphery-related afferent patterning in the brainstem and cortex, experience-dependent reorganizations in adult somatosensory cortex, and the locus of these changes.
authors: Molecular Neurobiology Laboratory, Salk Institute, La Jolla, California 92037.
authors: D D
authors: DD
authors: O'Leary
authors: N L
authors: NL
authors: Ruff
authors: R H
authors: RH
authors: Dyck
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D006801:Humans; D009473:Neuronal Plasticity / Q000502:physiology*; D013003:Somatosensory Cortex / Q000254:growth & development* / Q000502:physiology; D013788:Thalamus / Q000254:growth & development / Q000502:physiology; D014276:Trigeminal Nerve / Q000254:growth & development / Q000502:physiology