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ReviewCurrent opinion in neurobiology2011

The metamorphosis of the developing cerebellar microcircuit.

Ingrid van Welie, Ikuko T Smith, Alanna J Watt

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Review in Current opinion in neurobiology, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 26 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

26 citing papers in PubMed.

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  2. Disrupted Brain Connectivity in Newborns Following Antenatal Opioid Exposure.Biological psychiatry. Cognitive neuroscience and neuroimaging · 2026
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  6. Cerebellar Purkinje Cell Activity Regulates White Matter Response and Locomotor Function after Neonatal Hypoxia.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2025
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  7. PP2B-Dependent Cerebellar Plasticity Sets the Amplitude of the Vestibulo-ocular Reflex during Juvenile Development.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2024
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  15. Consensus Paper: Cerebellar Development.Cerebellum (London, England) · 2016
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  17. Emergence of functional subnetworks in layer 2/3 cortex induced by sequential spikes in vivo.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2016
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  19. Spontaneous Network Activity and Synaptic Development.The Neuroscientist : a review journal bringing neurobiology, neurology and psychiatry · 2014
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Ingrid van WelieWolfson Institute for Biomedical Research, University College London, London, WC1E 6BT, United Kingdom.
Ikuko T Smith
Alanna J Watt

Funding

Wellcome Trust
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The cerebellar cortical circuit with its organized and repetitive structure provides an excellent model system for studying how brain circuits are formed during development. The emergence of the mature brain requires that appropriate synaptic connections are formed and refined, which in the rodent cerebellum occurs primarily during the first three postnatal weeks. Developing circuits typically differ substantially from their mature counterparts, which suggests that development may not simply involve synaptic refinement, but rather involves restructuring of key synaptic components and network connections, in a manner reminiscent of metamorphosis. Here, we discuss recent evidence that, taken together, suggests that transient features of developing cerebellar synapses may act to coordinate network activity, and thereby shape the development of the cerebellar microcircuit.

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AnimalsCerebellumHumansNeural PathwaysNeurogenesisSynapses

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PMID21353528
PMCPMC3096781

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