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List of Contributors
Preface
Acknowledgments
Neuronal network formation in human cerebral cortex
Regulation of dendritic growth by calcium and neurotrophin signaling
Dynamics and pathology of dendritic spines
Introduction to the sixteenth C.U. Ariëns Kappers lecture
Mechanisms of retinotopic map development: Ephs, ephrins, and spontaneous correlated retinal activity
Biologically plausible models of neurite outgrowth
Competition in neurite outgrowth and the development of nerve connections
Molecular substrates of plasticity in the developing visual cortex
Excitatory–inhibitory balance and critical period plasticity in developing visual cortex
Structural plasticity in the developing visual system
Mechanisms controlling the formation of retinal mosaics
Laminar circuit formation in the vertebrate retina
Dynamics and plasticity in developing neuronal networks in vitro
Learning in ex-vivo developing networks of cortical neurons
Role of synaptic inhibition in spatiotemporal patterning of cortical activity
Synaptic mechanisms that shape visual signaling at the inner retina
The involvement of glutamate-gated channels in negative feedback from horizontal cells to cones
Compensatory physiological responses to chronic blockade of amino acid receptors during early development in spontaneously active organotypic cerebral cortex explants cultured in vitro
A visual salience map in the primate frontal eye field
Chronic multiunit recordings in behaving animals: advantages and limitations
Physiological studies of information processing in the normal and Parkinsonian basal ganglia: pallidal activity in Go/No-Go task and following MPTP treatment
Rho proteins, mental retardation and the neurobiological basis of intelligence
Neurodevelopment, neuroplasticity, and new genes for schizophrenia
The impact of seizures on developing hippocampal networks
Alzheimer’s disease as a disorder of dynamic brain self-organization
Subject Index