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Development of GABA-Immunoreactive Neurons in the Human Visual Cortex

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Neurotransmitters in the Human Brain

Part of the book series: Advances in Behavioral Biology ((ABBI,volume 43))

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Perinatal development of human cerebral cortex is characterised by rapid growth, followed by regression. There is overdevelopment of the length and spininess of dendrites, and of synaptic number (Huttenlocher et al., 1982; Leuba and Garey, 1987; Michel and Garey, 1984). The timescale of these processes corresponds to that in which features such as visual acuity mature and during which visual deprivation can cause amblyopia (Awaya et al., 1973; Teller, 1981).

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  1. Department of Anatomy, Charing Cross and Westminster Medical School, London, W6 8RF, UK

    L. J. Garey & X. X. Yan

  2. Department of Neurobiology, Hunan Medical University, Changsha, Hunan, 410078, People’s Republic of China

    X. X. Yan

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Garey, L.J., Yan, X.X. (1995). Development of GABA-Immunoreactive Neurons in the Human Visual Cortex. In: Tracey, D.J., Paxinos, G., Stone, J. (eds) Neurotransmitters in the Human Brain. Advances in Behavioral Biology, vol 43. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-1853-2_3

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