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Nicotine exposure during adolescence alters the rules for prefrontal cortical synaptic plasticity during adulthood

The majority of adolescents report to have smoked a cigarette at least once. Adolescence is a critical period of brain development during which maturation of areas involved in cognitive functioning, such as the medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC), is still ongoing. Tobacco smoking during this age may co...

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Autores principales: Goriounova, Natalia A., Mansvelder, Huibert D.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3410598/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22876231
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnsyn.2012.00003