A study of ocular dominance plasticity in mice lacking a synthetic enzyme for GABA suggests that increased cortical inhibition initiates the critical period for plasticity in primary visual cortex.
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Feldman, D. Inhibition and plasticity. Nat Neurosci 3, 303–304 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1038/73849
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