Neuronal plasticity in the brain is greatly enhanced during critical periods early in life and
was long thought to be rather limited thereafter. Studies in primary sensory areas of the …

Abstract Disrupted in schizophrenia 1 (DISC1) is an important hub protein, forming
multimeric complexes by self‐association and interacting with a large number of synaptic …

Genetic programs controlling ontogeny drive many of the essential connectivity patterns
within the brain. Yet it is activity, derived from the experience of interacting with the world …

Primary visual cortex (V1) is the locus of numerous forms of experience-dependent plasticity.
Restricting visual stimulation to one eye at a time has revealed that many such forms of …

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has increasingly been used to characterize structure–
function relationships during white matter neuroplasticity. Biological sex differences may be …

Monocular deprivation (MD) causes an initial decrease in synaptic responses to the
deprived eye in juvenile mouse primary visual cortex (V1) through Hebbian long-term …

Microdeletion of a region in chromosome 16p11. 2 increases susceptibility to autism.
Although this region contains exons of 29 genes, disrupting only a small segment of the …

Changing the whisker complement on a rodent's snout can lead to two forms of experience‐
dependent plasticity (EDP) in the neurons of the barrel cortex, where whiskers are …

Conceptual and computational models have been advanced that propose that perceptual
disturbances in psychosis, such as hallucinations, may arise due to a disruption in the …

The difference between male and female behavior and male and female susceptibility to a
number of neuropsychiatric conditions is not controversial. From a biological perspective …