Synaptic Activity and the Construction of Cortical Circuits

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1950 • 6,879 citations

The Molecular Biology of Axon Guidance

1996 • 3,246 citations

The period of susceptibility to the physiological effects of unilateral eye closure in kittens

1970 • 2,965 citations

Theory for the development of neuron selectivity: orientation specificity and binocular interaction in visual cortex

1982 • 2,824 citations

SINGLE-CELL RESPONSES IN STRIATE CORTEX OF KITTENS DEPRIVED OF VISION IN ONE EYE

1963 • 2,565 citations

Neurotrophins and Neuronal Plasticity

1995 • 1,937 citations

Physiology of the Neurotrophins

1996 • 1,908 citations

Plasticity of ocular dominance columns in monkey striate cortex

1977 • 1,630 citations

Developmental mechanisms that generate precise patterns of neuronal connectivity

1993 • 1,435 citations

Functions of the neurotrophins during nervous system development: What the knockouts are teaching us

1994 • 1,431 citations

Hippocampal long-term potentiation is impaired in mice lacking brain-derived neurotrophic factor.

1995 • 1,416 citations

Long-lasting neurotrophin-induced enhancement of synaptic transmission in the adult hippocampus

1995 • 1,354 citations

Synaptic plasticity: LTP and LTD

1994 • 1,301 citations

EFFECTS OF VISUAL DEPRIVATION ON MORPHOLOGY AND PHYSIOLOGY OF CELLS IN THE CAT'S LATERAL GENICULATE BODY

1963 • 1,280 citations

Recombinant BDNF Rescues Deficits in Basal Synaptic Transmission and Hippocampal LTP in BDNF Knockout Mice

1996 • 1,219 citations

Concurrent Overproduction of Synapses in Diverse Regions of the Primate Cerebral Cortex

1986 • 1,126 citations

Synchronous Bursts of Action Potentials in Ganglion Cells of the Developing Mammalian Retina

1991 • 1,126 citations

The development of ocular dominance columns in normal and visually deprived monkeys

1980 • 1,120 citations

Regulation of synaptic responses to high-frequency stimulation and LTP by neurotrophins in the hippocampus

1996 • 1,104 citations

Neurotrophins regulate dendritic growth in developing visual cortex

1995 • 963 citations

NMDA-receptor-dependent synaptic plasticity: multiple forms and mechanisms

1993 • 893 citations

Different voltage-dependent thresholds for inducing long-term depression and long-term potentiation in slices of rat visual cortex

1990 • 893 citations

Modulation of visual cortical plasticity by acetylcholine and noradrenaline

1986 • 851 citations

Experience-Dependent Plasticity of Binocular Responses in the Primary Visual Cortex of the Mouse

1996 • 833 citations

Functional Interactions of Neurotrophins and Neurotrophin Receptors

1995 • 825 citations

Prehistoric Extinctions of Pacific Island Birds: Biodiversity Meets Zooarchaeology

1995 • 801 citations

Impulse activity and the patterning of connections during cns development

1990 • 770 citations

Potentiation of developing neuromuscular synapses by the neurotrophins NT-3 and BDNF

1993 • 753 citations

Prenatal development of the visual system in rhesus monkey

1977 • 738 citations

A critical period for long-term potentiation at thalamocortical synapses

1995 • 702 citations

Ocular dominance in layer IV of the cat's visual cortex and the effects of monocular deprivation.

1978 • 698 citations

Binocular impulse blockade prevents the formation of ocular dominance columns in cat visual cortex

1986 • 694 citations

Selection of Intrinsic Horizontal Connections in the Visual Cortex by Correlated Neuronal Activity

1992 • 691 citations

Ocular dominance columns and their development in layer IV of the cat's visual cortex: A quantitative study

1978 • 671 citations

Ocular Dominance Column Development: Analysis and Simulation

1989 • 669 citations

Synaptic plasticity in the hippocampus: LTP and LTD

1994 • 653 citations

Increased levels of messenger RNAs for neurotrophic factors in the brain during kindling epileptogenesis

1991 • 636 citations

Mechanisms Underlying Long-Term Potentiation of Synaptic Transmission

1991 • 615 citations

The Dynamics of Dendritic Structure in Developing Hippocampal Slices

1996 • 611 citations

Molecular cloning of rat trkC and distribution of cells expressing messenger RNAs for members of the trk family in the rat central nervous system

1992 • 592 citations

Long-Term Depression in Hippocampus

1996 • 583 citations

Inhibition of Ocular Dominance Column Formation by Infusion of NT-4/5 or BDNF

1995 • 572 citations

Rapid Remodeling of Axonal Arbors in the Visual Cortex

1993 • 559 citations

Transient period of correlated bursting activity during development of the mammalian retina

1993 • 549 citations

Synaptic physiology of horizontal connections in the cat's visual cortex

1991 • 546 citations

Requirement for Cholinergic Synaptic Transmission in the Propagation of Spontaneous Retinal Waves

1996 • 534 citations

Prenatal Tetrodotoxin Infusion Blocks Segregation of Retinogeniculate Afferents

1988 • 521 citations

Light regulates expression of brain-derived neurotrophic factor mRNA in rat visual cortex.

1992 • 515 citations

Neurotrophin signal transduction by the Trk receptor

1994 • 511 citations

Disruption of experience-dependent synaptic modifications in striate cortex by infusion of an NMDA receptor antagonist

1990 • 497 citations

Neuronal Domains in Developing Neocortex

1992 • 493 citations

Common Forms of Synaptic Plasticity in the Hippocampus and Neocortex in Vitro

1993 • 485 citations

Whisker-related neuronal patterns fail to develop in the trigeminal brainstem nuclei of NMDAR1 knockout mice

1994 • 479 citations

The role of neurotrophins in the developing nervous system

1994 • 472 citations

Critical Structural Elements of the VP16 Transcriptional Activation Domain

1991 • 461 citations

Long-range horizontal connections and their role in cortical reorganization revealed by optical recording of cat primary visual cortex

1995 • 443 citations

Depletion of Brain Catecholamines: Failure of Ocular Dominance Shift After Monocular Occlusion in Kittens

1976 • 438 citations

Spontaneous Impulse Activity of Rat Retinal Ganglion Cells in Prenatal Life

1988 • 436 citations

The diencephalon of the albino rat. Studies on the brain of the rat. No. 2

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Remodelling of hand representation in adult cortex determined by timing of tactile stimulation

1995 • 436 citations

Co-regulation of long-term potentiation and experience-dependent synaptic plasticity in visual cortex by age and experience

1995 • 428 citations

Ordered arrangement of orientation columns in monkeys lacking visual experience

1974 • 422 citations

Hebbian synapses in visual cortex

1994 • 416 citations

Extensive dye coupling between rat neocortical neurons during the period of circuit formation

1993 • 397 citations

Impaired synapse elimination during cerebellar development in PKCγ mutant mice

1995 • 383 citations

The development of topography in the visual cortex: a review of models

1996 • 351 citations

Modification of retinal ganglion cell axon morphology by prenatal infusion of tetrodotoxin

1988 • 350 citations

Early events in neuromuscular junction formation in vitro: induction of acetylcholine receptor clusters in the postsynaptic membrane and morphology of newly formed synapses.

1979 • 348 citations

Prolonged sensitivity to monocular deprivation in dark-reared cats

1980 • 330 citations

Development of orientation selectivity in ferret visual cortex and effects of deprivation

1993 • 330 citations

Long-term potentiation and long-term depression in the neocortex

1992 • 329 citations

An adult-like pattern of ocular dominance columns in striate cortex of newborn monkeys prior to visual experience

1996 • 306 citations

Neurotrophins and activity-dependent development of the neocortex

1996 • 305 citations

Activity‐dependent and hormonal regulation of neurotrophin mRNA levels in brain–implications for neuronal plasticity

1994 • 297 citations

Disruption of retinogeniculate afferent segregation by antagonists to NMDA receptors

1991 • 276 citations

Early functional neural networks in the developing retina

1995 • 272 citations

Neural plasticity without postsynaptic action potentials: less-active inputs become dominant when kitten visual cortical cells are pharmacologically inhibited.

1988 • 272 citations

Neuronal domains in developing neocortex: Mechanisms of coactivation

1995 • 269 citations

Neurotrophic factors and synaptic plasticity

1995 • 259 citations

Critical period for monocular deprivation in the cat visual cortex

1992 • 256 citations

A cellular analogue of visual cortical plasticity

1988 • 256 citations

Nerve growth factor (NGF) prevents the shift in ocular dominance distribution of visual cortical neurons in monocularly deprived rats

1992 • 255 citations

Mechanism for a sliding synaptic modification threshold

1995 • 239 citations

Regulation of neurotrophin receptors during the maturation of the mammalian visual system

1994 • 233 citations

Prenatal development of retinal ganglion cell axons: segregation into eye-specific layers within the cat's lateral geniculate nucleus

1986 • 229 citations

Development of individual geniculocortical arbors in cat striate cortex and effects of binocular impulse blockade

1993 • 226 citations

Pathfinding and target selection by developing geniculocortical axons

1992 • 221 citations

Effects of binocular deprivation on the development of clustered horizontal connections in cat striate cortex.

1991 • 212 citations

The Role of Activity in the Development of Long-Range Horizontal Connections in Area 17 of the Ferret

1996 • 208 citations

Stratification of ON and OFF ganglion cell dendrites depends on glutamate-mediated afferent activity in the developing retina

1993 • 207 citations

NT-4-mediated rescue of lateral geniculate neurons from effects of monocular deprivation

1995 • 202 citations

The development of topography in the visual cortex: a review of models

1996 • 200 citations

Visual responses in adult cat visual cortex depend on N-methyl-D-aspartate receptors.

1989 • 185 citations

Prenatal development of functional connections in the cat's retinogeniculate pathway

1984 • 176 citations

Dark rearing prolongs physiological but not anatomical plasticity of the cat visual cortex

1985 • 168 citations

Development of Local Circuits in Mammalian Visual Cortex

1992 • 160 citations

Developmental changes in the susceptibility to long-term potentiation of neurones in rat visual cortex slices

1991 • 158 citations

Development of identical orientation maps for two eyes without common visual experience

1996 • 157 citations

In situ hybridization detection of trka mRNA in brain: Distribution, colocalization with p75^NGFR and up‐regulation by nerve growth factor

1994 • 155 citations

NGF and BDNF are differentially modulated by visual experience in the developing geniculocortical pathway

1995 • 149 citations

Long-term potentiation of synaptic transmission in kitten visual cortex

1988 • 147 citations

Rearrangements of Synaptic Connections in Visual Cortex Revealed by Laser Photostimulation

1994 • 140 citations

Transition of localization of the N-Myc protein from nucleus to cytoplasm in differentiating neurons

1993 • 137 citations

Changing Patterns of Spontaneous Bursting Activity of On and Off Retinal Ganglion Cells during Development

1996 • 135 citations

Rapid remodeling of retinal arbors in the tectum with and without blockade of synaptic transmission

1994 • 130 citations

Synaptogenesis in the retina of the cat

1986 • 122 citations

Gradual loss of synaptic cartels precedes axon withdrawal at developing neuromuscular junctions

1993 • 122 citations

Development of Horizontal Projections in Layer 2/3 of Ferret Visual Cortex

1996 • 118 citations

Enhancement of transmission at the developing retinogeniculate synapse

1993 • 113 citations

Effects of nerve growth factor on neuronal plasticity of the kitten visual cortex.

1993 • 104 citations

Influence of mercurial sulfhydryl agents on aqueous outflow pathways in enucleated eyes.

1984 • 100 citations

Synapses formed by identified retinogeniculate axons during the segregation of eye input

1992 • 100 citations

Brain‐derived Neurotrophic Factor Reverses Experience‐dependent Synaptic Modifications in Kitten Visual Cortex

1996 • 96 citations

Emergence of functional circuits in ferret visual cortex visualized by optical imaging

1995 • 74 citations

Low-threshold Ca2+ channels mediate induction of long-term potentiation in kitten visual cortex

1992 • 72 citations

Development of the rhesus monkey retina. I. Emergence of the inner plexiform layer and its synapses

1985 • 66 citations

Monocular deprivation effects in the rat visual cortex and lateral geniculate nucleus are prevented by nerve growth factor (NGF). II. Lateral geniculate nucleus

1993 • 61 citations

Development of spinal motor networks in the chick embryo

1992 • 61 citations

Synaptic Plasticity: A molecular mechanism for metaplasticity

1995 • 60 citations

Heterosynaptic suppression of developing neuromuscular synapses in culture

1994 • 58 citations

Chapter 14 Nmda-receptor-dependent synaptic plasticity in the visual cortex

1996 • 54 citations

Retrograde interactions during formation and elimination of neuromuscular synapses

1994 • 51 citations

Monocular deprivation effects in the rat visual cortex and lateral geniculate nucleus are prevented by nerve growth factor (NGF). I. Visual cortex

1993 • 48 citations

Synaptic Contacts and the Transient Dendritic Spines of Developing Retinal Ganglion Cells

1992 • 41 citations

Activity sharpens the regenerating retinotectal projection in goldfish: Sensitive period for strobe illumination and lack of effect on synaptogenesis and on ganglion cell receptive field properties

1988 • 39 citations

Theory meets experiment: correlated neural activity helps determine ocular dominance column periodicity

1995 • 38 citations

Cortical development: With an eye on neurotrophins

1996 • 23 citations

Clonogenic cytotoxicity testing by microdrop encapsulation

1993 • 12 citations

The Morse Code

1875 • 6 citations

Preparing Children for the Future

1996 • 5 citations

Museum Labels

1937 • 2 citations

Sweeping visions

1991 • 1 citations