The Plastic Brain

Description

A comprehensive overview of the many factors that can influence brain plasticity throughout the lifespan. Addresses perinatal plasticity, functional state plasticity, injury-induced plasticity, and stressor-induced plasticity. Because it looks at so many aspects of the field, this volume will serve as a great resource for students as well as researchers interested in expanding their knowledge. The volume comes out as an integrated view based in the expertise of Ibero American neuroscientists working in the field. Front Matter ....Pages i-ix What Is Neural Plasticity? (Rommy von Bernhardi, Laura Eugenín-von Bernhardi, Jaime Eugenín)....Pages 1-15 Front Matter ....Pages 17-17 CREB at the Crossroads of Activity-Dependent Regulation of Nervous System Development and Function (Yesser H. Belgacem, Laura N. Borodinsky)....Pages 19-39 Models of Short-Term Synaptic Plasticity (Janet Barroso-Flores, Marco A. Herrera-Valdez, Elvira Galarraga, José Bargas)....Pages 41-57 Plasticity in the Interoceptive System (Fernando Torrealba, Carlos Madrid, Marco Contreras, Karina Gómez)....Pages 59-74 Learning as a Functional State of the Brain: Studies in Wild-Type and Transgenic Animals (José M. Delgado-García, Agnès Gruart)....Pages 75-93 Front Matter ....Pages 95-95 Bidirectional Effects of Mother-Young Contact on the Maternal and Neonatal Brains (Gabriela González-Mariscal, Angel I. Melo)....Pages 97-116 Prenatal Stress and Neurodevelopmental Plasticity: Relevance to Psychopathology (María Eugenia Pallarés, Marta C. Antonelli)....Pages 117-129 Early Postnatal Development of Somastostatinergic Systems in Brainstem Respiratory Network (Isabel Llona, Paula Farías, Jennifer L. Troc-Gajardo)....Pages 131-144 Front Matter ....Pages 145-145 Respiratory Rhythm Generation: The Whole Is Greater Than the Sum of the Parts (Consuelo Morgado-Valle, Luis Beltran-Parrazal)....Pages 147-161 The Onset of the Fetal Respiratory Rhythm: An Emergent Property Triggered by Chemosensory Drive? (Sebastián Beltrán-Castillo, Consuelo Morgado-Valle, Jaime Eugenín)....Pages 163-192 Neurodevelopmental Effects of Serotonin on the Brainstem Respiratory Network (Karina Bravo, Jaime Eugenín, Isabel Llona)....Pages 193-216 Neural Network Reconfigurations: Changes of the Respiratory Network by Hypoxia as an Example (Fernando Peña-Ortega)....Pages 217-237 Front Matter ....Pages 239-239 Progenitors in the Ependyma of the Spinal Cord: A Potential Resource for Self-Repair After Injury (Nicolás Marichal, Cecilia Reali, María Inés Rehermann, Omar Trujillo-Cenóz, Raúl E. Russo)....Pages 241-264 IKD Current in Cold Transduction and Damage-Triggered Cold Hypersensitivity (Alejandro González, Gaspar Herrera, Gonzalo Ugarte, Carlos Restrepo, Ricardo Piña, María Pertusa et al.)....Pages 265-277 Back Matter ....Pages 279-284