Plasticity in the Somatosensory System of Developing and Mature Mammals - The Effects of Injury to the Central and Peripheral Nervous System
[Book]
by Peter J. Snow, Peter Wilson.
Berlin, Heidelberg
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
1991
(xvi, 482 pages 139 illustrations)
Progress in sensory physiology, 11.
Introductory Remarks --;Plasticity in the Peripheral Somatosensory Nervous System --;Plasticity and the Mystacial Vibrissae of Rodents --;Plasticity and the Spinal Dorsal Horn (with Notes on Homologous Regions of th Trigeminal Nuclei) --;Plasticity and the Dorsal Column Nuclei --;Plasticity and the Somatosensory Thalamus --;Plasticity and the Somatosensory Cerebral Cortex --;Concluding Remarks --;References --;Subject Index.
Rarely have the many mechanisms that might underlie neural plasticity been examined as explicitly as they are in this broad, lavishly illustrated treatment of plasticity in the somatosensory system.