Evidence map›Paper›PMID 17761542›Full record

ArticleLearning & memory (Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y.)2007

Adult visual experience promotes recovery of primary visual cortex from long-term monocular deprivation.

Quentin S Fischer, Salman Aleem, Hongyi Zhou, Tony A Pham

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Article in Learning & memory (Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y.), 2007. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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5 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 18 citations in OpenAlex.

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  5. Nogo Receptor 1 Confines a Disinhibitory Microcircuit to the Critical Period in Visual Cortex.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2016
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Quentin S FischerDepartment of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston Texas 77030, USA. qfischer@bcm.edu
Salman Aleem
Hongyi Zhou
Tony A Pham
Baylor College of Medicine · US

Funding

The CRE/CREB Pathway and Visual Cortical PlasticityR01EY014238 · NEI · UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON · PI PHAM, TONY AI · 2004 to 2006
$940k
CA2+/CAMP SIGNALING IN DEVELOPMENT OF FOREBRAIN CIRCUITSK08MH001971 · NIMH · UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON · PI PHAM, TONY AI · 2000 to 2004
$763k
NEI NIH HHS R01 EY014238NIMH NIH HHS K08 MH001971NIMH NIH HHS K08 MH01971
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Prolonged visual deprivation from early childhood to maturity is believed to cause permanent visual impairment. However, there have been case reports of substantial improvement of binocular vision in human adults following lifelong visual impairment or deprivation. These observations, together with recent findings of adult ocular dominance plasticity in rodents, led us to re-examine whether adult primary visual cortex (V1) is capable of any recovery following long-term monocular deprivation starting in development. Using mice as a model, we find that monocular deprivation from early development to mature ages (well past the critical period) severely impaired binocular vision by reducing the amplitude of responses elicited by stimulation of the deprived eye. Surprisingly, we find little effect on nondeprived eye responses. Restoration of binocular vision in mature adults yields modest but significant improvement of visual responses in V1. Remarkably, we find that when binocular vision is followed by occlusion of the nondeprived eye, visual responses in V1 recover almost fully, as measured by visual evoked potential amplitude, spatial frequency threshold, and single-unit activity. We conclude that adult V1 can recover from long-term deprivation when provided with an optimal regimen of visual experience.

Indexed as

Neuronal PlasticityAge FactorsAnimalsDominance, OcularEvoked Potentials, VisualMiceMice, Inbred C57BLRecovery of FunctionSensory DeprivationSingle-Blind MethodTime FactorsVision, BinocularVision, MonocularVisual Cortex

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PMID17761542
PMCPMC1994076
OpenAlexW2093497094

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