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Sensory cortex lesion triggers compensatory neuronal plasticity

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Neuroscience, May 2014
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Title
Sensory cortex lesion triggers compensatory neuronal plasticity
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BMC Neuroscience, May 2014
DOI 10.1186/1471-2202-15-57
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Manfred Depner, Konstantin Tziridis, Andreas Hess, Holger Schulze

Abstract

Lesions to the human brain often cause dramatic impairments in the life of patients because of the very limited capacity of the mammalian nervous system to regenerate. On the other hand, neuronal tissue has a high capacity to reorganize itself so that loss of function due to brain damage may be compensated through neuroplastic reorganization of undamaged tissue in brain regions adjacent or contralateral to the lesion site. In this study we investigated the effect of serial lesions of the auditory cortices (AC) in both hemispheres of Mongolian gerbils on discrimination performance for fast amplitude modulated tones (AM). Healthy animals were trained to discriminate two fast AM, an ability that has previously been shown to critically depend on cortical processing. Their ability to maintain significant discrimination performance was retested after unilateral AC lesion, and again after lesion of the contralateral AC, with 15 days of continuing training in between the two lesions.

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Country Count As %
Unknown 39 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 6 15%
Student > Ph. D. Student 6 15%
Researcher 5 13%
Student > Doctoral Student 4 10%
Unspecified 4 10%
Other 6 15%
Unknown 8 21%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 8 21%
Psychology 5 13%
Medicine and Dentistry 5 13%
Unspecified 4 10%
Neuroscience 4 10%
Other 5 13%
Unknown 8 21%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 3. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 29 August 2014.
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