Plasticity in the Brainstem: Prenatal and Postnatal Experience Can Alter Laterodorsal Tegmental (LDT) Structure and Function

The brainstem has traditionally been considered an area of the brain with autonomous control of mostly homeostatic functions such as heart rate, respiration, and the sleep and wakefulness state, which would preclude the necessity to exhibit the high degree of synaptic or cellular mechanisms of plast...

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Main Authors: Kristi A. Kohlmeier, Filip S. Polli
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2020-02-01
Series:Frontiers in Synaptic Neuroscience
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fnsyn.2020.00003/full