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Sensitive Periods for Recovery from Early Brain Injury

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Sensitive Periods of Brain Development and Preventive Interventions

Part of the book series: Current Topics in Behavioral Neurosciences ((CTBN,volume 53))

Abstract

The developing brain is remarkably plastic as it changes in response to a wide range of experiences including sensory and motor experience, psychoactive drugs, peer relationships, parent–infant interactions, gonadal hormones, intestinal flora, diet, and injury. There are sensitive periods for many of these experiences, including cerebral injury. Comparisons across mammalian species (humans, monkeys, cats, rats, mice) show a sensitive period for good outcomes from cerebral injury around the time of intense synaptogenesis. This period is postnatal in humans, cats, and rats, but prenatal in monkeys, reflecting the differences in neuronal development at birth across species. In addition, there appears to be a sensitive period prenatally during the time of maximum cortical neurogenesis and possibly during adolescence as well, although these periods are not as well studied as the period related to synaptogenesis and to date only examined in rats. Here we review the evidence for sensitive periods related to brain injury across species and propose mechanisms that may underlie the plasticity during these periods.

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Kolb, B. (2022). Sensitive Periods for Recovery from Early Brain Injury. In: Andersen, S.L. (eds) Sensitive Periods of Brain Development and Preventive Interventions. Current Topics in Behavioral Neurosciences, vol 53. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/7854_2021_296

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