Willie K. Dong

TL;DR: A critical review of the extant literature that has focused on environmental influences on cognitive and brain plasticity over the adult life span and a number of factors that have been suggested to reduce age-related cognitive decline are reviewed.

TL;DR: It is suggested that early postnatal binge alcohol exposure results in long-term deficits of adult hippocampal neurogenesis, providing a potential basis for the deficits of hippocampus-dependent behaviors reported for this model.

TL;DR: A number of recent studies demonstrate the possibility of using environmental and experiential intervention to reduce or ameliorate some of the neuronal and nonneuronal abnormalities, as well as behavioral deficits, present in these neurological and developmental disorders.

TL;DR: It is suggested that the term housing supplementation better describes the wide range of alterations to laboratory animal housing that has been proposed or investigated, and that various forms of housing supplementation may not enhance laboratory animal well-being and may be detrimental to the research for which the laboratory animals are used.

TL;DR: These findings suggest that procedures for in vivo induction of long-term potentiation or long- term depression should incorporate a 30 min rest period after electrode insertion, and indicate that the contralateral hippocampus cannot be considered an unstimulated control tissue.