Plasticity of the visual cortex and treatment of amblyopia

Critical period plasticity in local cortical circuits

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Reactivation of Ocular Dominance Plasticity in the Adult Visual Cortex

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Local GABA Circuit Control of Experience-Dependent Plasticity in Developing Visual Cortex

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The antidepressant fluoxetine restores plasticity in the adult visual cortex

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Inhibitory threshold for critical-period activation in primary visual cortex

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Learning, Attentional Control, and Action Video Games

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Experience-driven plasticity of visual cortex limited by myelin and nogo receptor

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Rapid Remodeling of Axonal Arbors in the Visual Cortex

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Amblyopia and binocular vision

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Experience leaves a lasting structural trace in cortical circuits

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Environmental enrichment in adulthood promotes amblyopia recovery through a reduction of intracortical inhibition

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

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Enhancing the contrast sensitivity function through action video game training

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Visual experience and deprivation bidirectionally modify the composition and function of NMDA receptors in visual cortex.

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

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Perceptual learning as a potential treatment for amblyopia: A mini-review

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Critical-Period Plasticity in the Visual Cortex

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Experience-dependent pruning of dendritic spines in visual cortex by tissue plasminogen activator

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Structural and functional recovery from early monocular deprivation in adult rats

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Treatment Dose-Response in Amblyopia Therapy: The Monitored Occlusion Treatment of Amblyopia Study (MOTAS)

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Reducing Intracortical Inhibition in the Adult Visual Cortex Promotes Ocular Dominance Plasticity

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Dichoptic training enables the adult amblyopic brain to learn

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Experience-dependent recovery of vision following chronic deprivation amblyopia

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Brain plasticity in the adult: modulation of function in amblyopia with rTMS.

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Anti‐Nogo on the go: from animal models to a clinical trial

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Permissive proteolytic activity for visual cortical plasticity

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Objectively monitored patching regimens for treatment of amblyopia: randomised trial

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Contrast masking in strabismic amblyopia: Attenuation, noise, interocular suppression and binocular summation

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Perceptual Learning Reduces Crowding in Amblyopia and in the Normal Periphery

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Cortical recovery from effects of monocular deprivation: acceleration with norepinephrine and suppression with 6-hydroxydopamine.

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Anodal Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation Transiently Improves Contrast Sensitivity and Normalizes Visual Cortex Activation in Individuals With Amblyopia

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Recurrence of Amblyopia after Occlusion Therapy

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Modified virtual reality technology for treatment of amblyopia

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Darkness Alters Maturation of Visual Cortex and Promotes Fast Recovery from Monocular Deprivation

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An iPod treatment of amblyopia: an updated binocular approach.

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Correlated binocular activity guides recovery from monocular deprivation

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Levodopa/carbidopa for childhood amblyopia.

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Long Lasting Effects of Daily Theta Burst rTMS Sessions in the Human Amblyopic Cortex

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Physiology of suppression in strabismic amblyopia.

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Interactive binocular treatment (I-BiT) for amblyopia: results of a pilot study of 3D shutter glasses system

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Levodopa-carbidopa with occlusion in older children with amblyopia

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Effects of Digesting Chondroitin Sulfate Proteoglycans on Plasticity in Cat Primary Visual Cortex

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The long-term effectiveness of different regimens of occlusion on recovery from early monocular deprivation in kittens

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Brief daily binocular vision prevents monocular deprivation effects in visual cortex

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The Development and Activity-Dependent Expression of Aggrecan in the Cat Visual Cortex

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Spatial frequency discrimination learning in normal and developmentally impaired human vision

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Protection against deprivation amblyopia depends on relative not absolute daily binocular exposure

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Practical management of amblyopia

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Visual Cortex: Overcoming a No-Go for Plasticity

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Amblyopia: Out of the Dark, Into the Light

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Does puberty mark a transition in sensitive periods for plasticity in the associative neocortex?

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Enhancement of visual cortex plasticity by dark exposure

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Optimization of visual training for full recovery from severe amblyopia in adults

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Age-Dependent Ocular Dominance Plasticity in Adult Mice

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Age-dependent ocular dominance plasticity in mouse visual cortex

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Visual Deprivation Reactivates Rapid Ocular Dominance Plasticity in Adult Visual Cortex

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Short-term monocular pattern deprivation reduces the internal additive noise of the visual system

Li, J., Cheng, Z., Li, J., Li, L., Chen, L., Tao, J., Wang, Z., Wu, D., & Zhang, P. (2023) · Frontiers in Neuroscience · doi:10.3389/fnins.2023.1155034 · Cited by 1 · see citing works

The Mechanism of Short-Term Monocular Pattern Deprivation-Induced Perceptual Eye Dominance Plasticity

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