Brain Mechanisms in Mental Retardation
Proceedings of a Conference in the Series on Mental Retardation Sponsored by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Mental Retardation Research Centers Series
National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (U.S.)
Published: 1975
Pages: 540
Series on Mental Retardation held in Oxnard, California, in January 1974. This book compiles research on neurobiological findings which might lead to an understanding of the basic processes underlying the phenomena of mental deficiency and related aspects of human development. The topics discussed include the timing of major ontogenetic events in the visual cortex of the rhesus monkey; neuronal sprouting after hippocampal lesions; synaptic and dendritic development and mental defect; and CNS maturation and behavioral development. The neuronal control of neurochemical processes in the basal gan ...