Brain plasticity refers to the remarkable property of cerebral neurons to change their
structure and function in response to experience, a fundamental theoretical theme in the …

The brain's life-long capacity for experience-dependent plasticity allows adaptation to new
environments or to changes in the environment, and to changes in internal brain states such …

An enriched environment consists of a combination of enhanced social relations, physical
exercise and interactions with non-social stimuli that leads to behavioral and neuronal …

This review of rat sensory perception spans eight decades of work conducted across diverse
research fields. It covers rat vision, audition, olfaction, gustation, and somatosensation, and …

The influence of exposure to impoverished environments on brain development is
unexplored since most studies investigated how environmental impoverishment affects adult …

Environmental enrichment paradigms in adult laboratory animals, consisting of physical,
perceptual, and social stimulation, have been shown to affect synapse and cell morphology …

Early sensory experience shapes the anatomy and function of sensory circuits. In the mouse
olfactory bulb (OB), prenatal and early postnatal odorant exposure through odorized food …

This review addresses the recent convergence of our long-standing knowledge of the
regulation of behavioral phenotypes by developmental experience with recent advances in …

It is well understood that the different regions of the body have cortical representations in
proportion to the degree of innervation. Our current understanding of the rat upper extremity …

Blood Oxygenation Level Dependent functional MRI (BOLD fMRI) during electrical paw
stimulation has been widely used in studies aimed at the understanding of the …