What's Special about Development? Thoughts on the Bases of Experience-Sensitive Synaptic Plasticity

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

1970 • 2,965 citations

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

1980 • 1,120 citations

Neurobiology of learning and memory

1985 • 1,024 citations

Elimination of Synapses in the Developing Nervous System

1980 • 807 citations

Chemical and Anatomical Plasticity of Brain

1964 • 757 citations

Stereological methods. Vol. 1: Practical methods for biological morphometry

1984 • 624 citations

Pattern of dendritic branching in occipital cortex of rats reared in complex environments

1973 • 537 citations

Transient and enduring morphological correlates of synaptic activity and efficacy change in the rat hippocampal slice

1984 • 531 citations

Rearing Complexity Affects Branching of Dendrites in the Visual Cortex of the Rat

1972 • 508 citations

Brief bursts of high-frequency stimulation produce two types of structural change in rat hippocampus.

1980 • 474 citations

Differential rearing effects on rat visual cortex synapses. I. Synaptic and neuronal density and synapses per neuron

1985 • 459 citations

Effects of differential experience on dendritic spine counts in rat cerebral cortex.

1973 • 441 citations

Increases in cortical depth and glia numbers in rats subjected to enriched environment

1966 • 410 citations

Effects of rearing complexity on dendritic branching in frontolateral and temporal cortex of the rat

1973 • 377 citations

Subsynaptic Plate Perforations: Changes with Age and Experience in the Rat

1978 • 328 citations

Evironmental effects on cortical dendritic fields. I. Rearing in the dark.

1968 • 319 citations

Preservation of binocularity after monocular deprivation in the striate cortex of kittens treated with 6‐Hydroxydopamine

1979 • 313 citations

Effects of unilateral and bilateral training in a reaching task on dendritic branching of neurons in the rat motor-sensory forelimb cortex

1985 • 310 citations

Cerebellar Plasticity: Modification of Purkinje Cell Structure by Differential Rearing in Monkeys

1979 • 287 citations

Cell Biology of Synaptic Plasticity

1984 • 275 citations

Ontogenesis of olivocerebellar relationships. I. Studies by intracellular recordings of the multiple innervation of Purkinje cells by climbing fibers in the developing rat cerebellum

1981 • 266 citations

Extensive cortical depth measurements and neuron size increases in the cortex of environmentally enriched rats

1967 • 264 citations

Morphological variations in the dendritic spines of the neocortex

1969 • 259 citations

Altered axons and axon terminals in the lateral vestibular nucleus of the rat. Possible example of axonal remodeling.

1971 • 246 citations

Macromolecules and Behavior

1972 • 246 citations

Maturation of rat visual cortex. II. A combined Golgi‐electron microscope study of pyramidal neurons

1981 • 235 citations

Plasticity in the central nervous system: do synapses divide?

1983 • 231 citations

Electrophysiology of isolated mammalian CNS preparations

1982 • 226 citations

Dendritic branching: some preliminary results of training and complexity in rat visual cortex

1966 • 217 citations

Adaptation and Intelligence: Organic Selection and Phenocopy

1980 • 208 citations

Sex differences in the dendritic branching of dentate granule cells following differential experience

1985 • 207 citations

Evidence for active synapse formation or altered postsynaptic metabolism in visual cortex of rats reared in complex environments.

1985 • 200 citations

Quantitative Synaptic Changes With Differential Experience In Rat Brain

1971 • 194 citations

Maze training effects on dendritic branching in occipital cortex of adult rats

1979 • 181 citations

Changes in size and shape of synaptic connections after visual training: An ultrastructural approach of synaptic plasticity

1981 • 176 citations

Effects of complex or isolated environments on cortical dendrites of middle-aged rats

1983 • 169 citations

Effect of environmental complexity on cortical synapses of rats: Preliminary results

1972 • 168 citations

Perforated postsynaptic densities: probable intermediates in synapse turnover.

1982 • 159 citations

Exercise During Development Induces an Increase in Purkinje Cell Dendritic Tree Size

1979 • 159 citations

Changes in Visual Cortex on First Exposure of Rats to Light: Effect on Synaptic Dimensions

1967 • 154 citations

Difference in occipital cortical synapses from environmentally enriched, impoverished, and standard colony rats

1975 • 152 citations

Environmentally-induced Changes in the Brains of Elderly Rats

1973 • 149 citations

Determining Sizes and Distribution of Sizes of Spherical Bodies such as Chromaffin Granules in Tissue Sections

1968 • 144 citations

Synaptic remodelling during development and maturation: Junction differentiation and splitting as a mechanism for modifying connectivity

1984 • 142 citations

Lateralized effects of monocular training on dendritic branching in adult split-brain rats

1982 • 135 citations

Plasticity in adult rat visual cortex: An examination of several cell populations after differential rearing

1980 • 134 citations

The development of synapses in kitten visual cortex during visual deprivation

1975 • 133 citations

Quantitation of terminal parameters and their interrelationships in maturing central synapses: A perspective for experimental studies

1980 • 130 citations

The effect of monocular deprivation on the synaptic contacts of the visual cortex

1969 • 130 citations

Differential rearing effects on rat visual cortex synapses. II. Synaptic morphometry

1985 • 118 citations

The effect of monocular deprivation on dendritic spines in visual cortex of young and adult albino rats: evidence for a sensitive period

1979 • 104 citations

Further contributions on neurobiotaxis IX. An attempt to compare the phenomena of neurobiotaxis with other phenomena of taxis and tropism. The dynamic polarization of the neurone

1917 • 85 citations

Maze training alters brain weights and cortical RNA/DNA ratios

1979 • 81 citations

Polyribosomes at the Base of Dendritic Spines of Central Nervous System Neurons--Their Possible Role in Synapse Construction and Modification

1983 • 80 citations

Changes in the Visual Cortex of Rats after Unilateral Deprivation

1968 • 75 citations

Effects of monocular deprivation on geniculocortical synapses in the cat

1984 • 75 citations

Environmental Influences on the Neocortex in Later Life

1978 • 74 citations

Effects of dark rearing on dendritic spines in layer IV of the mouse visual cortex. A quantitative electron microscopical study.

1978 • 72 citations

An electron microscope study of the early postnatal development of the visual cortex of the hooded rat

1979 • 65 citations

Neonatal 6-hydroxydopamine attenuates the neural and behavioral effects of enriched rearing in the rat

1983 • 58 citations

Synaptic contact curvature: effects of differential rearing on rat occipital cortex

1982 • 55 citations

The environmental enrichment effect upon cortical growth is neutralized by concomitant pharmacological suppression of active sleep in female rats

1983 • 54 citations

The effects of a lengthy period of environmental diversity on well‐fed and previously undernourished rats. II. Synapse‐to‐neuron ratios

1984 • 52 citations

Postnatal development of synaptic contact zones in the visual cortex of rabbits

1978 • 48 citations

The organization of paramembranous densities during postnatal maturation of synaptic junctions in the cerebral cortex

1972 • 40 citations

The interactive effects of prenatal imipramine exposure and postnatal rearing conditions on behaviour and histology

1975 • 37 citations

Impairment of environmental effects on brain weight by adrenergic drugs in rats

1983 • 35 citations