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Enriched and Deprived Sensory Experience Induces Structural Changes and Rewires Connectivity during the Postnatal Development of the Brain
Joint Authors
Bulnes, Susana
Bengoetxea, Harkaitz
Ortuzar, Naiara
Lafuente, José Vicente
Argandoña, Enrike G.
Rico-Barrio, Irantzu
Source
Issue
Vol. 2012, Issue 2012 (31 Dec. 2012), pp.1-10, 10 p.
Publisher
Hindawi Publishing Corporation
Publication Date
2012-07-09
Country of Publication
Egypt
No. of Pages
10
Main Subjects
Abstract EN
During postnatal development, sensory experience modulates cortical development, inducing numerous changes in all of the components of the cortex.
Most of the cortical changes thus induced occur during the critical period, when the functional and structural properties of cortical neurons are particularly susceptible to alterations.
Although the time course for experience-mediated sensory development is specific for each system, postnatal development acts as a whole, and if one cortical area is deprived of its normal sensory inputs during early stages, it will be reorganized by the nondeprived senses in a process of cross-modal plasticity that not only increases performance in the remaining senses when one is deprived, but also rewires the brain allowing the deprived cortex to process inputs from other senses and cortices, maintaining the modular configuration.
This paper summarizes our current understanding of sensory systems development, focused specially in the visual system.
It delineates sensory enhancement and sensory deprivation effects at both physiological and anatomical levels and describes the use of enriched environment as a tool to rewire loss of brain areas to enhance other active senses.
Finally, strategies to apply restorative features in human-deprived senses are studied, discussing the beneficial and detrimental effects of cross-modal plasticity in prostheses and sensory substitution devices implantation.
American Psychological Association (APA)
Bengoetxea, Harkaitz& Ortuzar, Naiara& Bulnes, Susana& Rico-Barrio, Irantzu& Lafuente, José Vicente& Argandoña, Enrike G.. 2012. Enriched and Deprived Sensory Experience Induces Structural Changes and Rewires Connectivity during the Postnatal Development of the Brain. Neural Plasticity،Vol. 2012, no. 2012, pp.1-10.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1029906
Modern Language Association (MLA)
Bengoetxea, Harkaitz…[et al.]. Enriched and Deprived Sensory Experience Induces Structural Changes and Rewires Connectivity during the Postnatal Development of the Brain. Neural Plasticity No. 2012 (2012), pp.1-10.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1029906
American Medical Association (AMA)
Bengoetxea, Harkaitz& Ortuzar, Naiara& Bulnes, Susana& Rico-Barrio, Irantzu& Lafuente, José Vicente& Argandoña, Enrike G.. Enriched and Deprived Sensory Experience Induces Structural Changes and Rewires Connectivity during the Postnatal Development of the Brain. Neural Plasticity. 2012. Vol. 2012, no. 2012, pp.1-10.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1029906
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes bibliographical references
Record ID
BIM-1029906