MBI Researcher Alfredo Kirkwood’s laboratory recently published as paper in eLife. The study shows that pairing visual and adrenergic stimulation for only 1 hour enhances visual cortical responses for days, and it can reverse cortical deficits produced by months of visual deprivation.
S Hong, S Huang, D Severin, A Kirkwood. Pull-push neuromodulation of cortical plasticity enables rapid bi-directional shifts in ocular dominance. 2020 9:e54455. doi: 10.7554/eLife.54455.