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Running just to stand still

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Sensory deprivation can result in impaired perception in most sensory modalities owing to experience-dependent changes in neural processing. Odor perception, however, appears to be relatively immune to periods of deprivation. Work in humans now suggests that this stability may be due to robust, reversible, compensatory plasticity in cortex.

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Figure 1: Compensatory changes in brain regions, including the piriform cortex and OFC, may allow the olfactory system to experience prolonged periods of deprivation without marked changes in odor perception.

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  1. and Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Donald A. Wilson is at the Emotional Brain Institute, Nathan Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research, New York University Langone School of Medicine, New York, New York, USA.,

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