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Developmental Plasticity of Inhibitory Circuitry

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  • © 2010

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Editors:
  1. Sarah L. Pallas

    1. Dept. Biology, Georgia State University, Atlanta, U.S.A.

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  • Presents latest knowledge in order to reconcile conflicting data and to promote further progress

  • Reports on inhibitory plasticity that has a behavioral implication

  • Seeks to promote further studies to help clarify excitation-independent mechanisms underlying strengthening in inhibitory connections

  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Introduction

    • Sarah L. Pallas
    Pages 3-12

  3. The Origins and Specification of Cortical Interneurons

    • Asif Maroof, Stewart Anderson
    Pages 13-26

  4. Role of Spontaneous Activity in the Maturation of GABAergic Synapses in Embryonic Spinal Circuits

    • Carlos E. Gonzalez-Islas, Peter Wenner
    Pages 27-39

  5. Regulation of Inhibitory Synapse Function in the Developing Auditory CNS

    • Dan H. Sanes, Emma C. Sarro, Anne E. Takesian, Chiye Aoki, Vibhakar C. Kotak
    Pages 43-69

  6. Developmental Plasticity of Inhibitory Receptive Field Properties in the Auditory and Visual Systems

    • Khaleel A. Razak, Zoltan M. Fuzessery, Sarah L. Pallas
    Pages 71-89

  7. Postnatal Maturation and Experience-Dependent Plasticity of Inhibitory Circuits in Barrel Cortex

    • Qian-Quan Sun
    Pages 91-111

  8. GABAergic Transmission and Neuronal Network Events During Hippocampal Development

    • Sampsa T. Sipilä, Kai K. Kaila
    Pages 115-136

  9. Endocannabinoids and Inhibitory Synaptic Plasticity in Hippocampus and Cerebellum

    • Bradley E. Alger
    Pages 137-164

  10. Interneuron Pathophysiologies: Paths to Neurodevelopmental Disorders

    • Kathie L. Eagleson, Elizabeth A. D. Hammock, Pat Levitt
    Pages 167-184

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 185-190
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Neuroscience has long been focused on understanding neural plasticity in both development and adulthood. Experimental work in this area has focused almost entirely on plasticity at excitatory synapses. A growing body of evidence suggests that plasticity at inhibitory GABAergic and glycinergic synapses is of critical importance during both development and aging.

The book brings together the work of researchers investigating inhibitory plasticity at many levels of analysis and in several different preparations. This topic is of wide relevance across a number of different areas of research in neuroscience and neurology. Medical problems such as epilepsy, mental illness, drug abuse, and movement disorders can result from malfunctioning inhibitory circuits. Further, the maturation of inhibitory circuits may trigger the onset of critical periods of neural circuit plasticity, raising the possibility that such plastici periods could be reactivated for medical benefit by manipulating inhibitory circuitry.

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From the reviews: “For basic and clinical researchers and students in neuroscience and neurology, Pallas (neuroscience and biology, Georgia State U) brings together nine chapters that examine how inhibitory circuits are formed during development and how they are involved in plasticity of developing sensory and motor circuitry. … The book originated in a symposium on the topic at the 2006 Society for Neuroscience meeting in Atlanta, Georgia.” (SciTech Book News, June, 2010)

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  • Dept. Biology, Georgia State University, Atlanta, U.S.A.

    Sarah L. Pallas

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