Oxytocin-dependent reopening of a social reward learning critical period with MDMA
Nature April 3, 2019 Romain Nardou, Eastman M. Lewis, Rebecca Rothhaas et al. 343 citations
A critical period is a developmental epoch during which the nervous system is expressly sensitive to specific environmental stimuli that are required for proper circuit organization and learning. Mechanistic characterization of critical periods has revealed an important role for exuberant brain plasticity during early development, and for constraints that are imposed on these mechanisms as the...