Neuronal Regulation: A Mechanism for Synaptic Pruning During Brain Maturation
- 1 November 1999
- journal article
- Published by MIT Press in Neural Computation
- Vol. 11 (8) , 2061-2080
- https://doi.org/10.1162/089976699300016089
Abstract
Human and animal studies show that mammalian brains undergo massive synaptic pruning during childhood, losing about half of the synapses by puberty. We have previously shown that maintaining the ne...Keywords
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