Synapse Development and Maturation - Comprehensive Developmental Neuroscience

• Features leading experts in various subfields as section editors and article authors
• Presents articles that have been peer reviewed to ensure accuracy, thoroughness and scholarship
• Includes coverage of mechanisms which regulate synapse formation and maintenance during development
• Covers neural activity, from cell-intrinsic maturation, to early correlated patterns of activity

Neuroscience, developmental biology researchers, including stem cells, aging, and diseases. Translational neuroscience researchers

I: SYNAPTOGENESIS
1. Molecular Composition of Developing Glutamatergic Synapses
A. Kimberley McAllister
2. In Vivo Imaging of Synaptogenesis
Edward S. Ruthazer
3. Astrocytes and synaptogenesis
Cagla Eroglu and William Christopher Risher
4. Genetic Analysis of Synaptogenesis
David L. Van Vactor Jr.
5. New Imaging Tools to Study Synaptogenesis
Matthew B. Dalva and Sylvain Le Marchand
6. Wnt Signaling
Patricia C. Salinas
7. Neurotrophin & synaptogenesis
Moses Chao, Freddy Jeanneteau and Margarita Arango-Lievano
8. Neuroligins and Neurexins
Peter Scheiffele
9. Synapse Formation in the Developing Vertebrate Retina
Wei Wei
10. Synaptogenesis in the Adult CNS – Hippocampus
Alejandro Schinder
11. Synaptogenesis in the Adult CNS–Olfactory System
ADI Mizrahi and Amit Vinograd

II: DEVELOPMENTAL SEQUENCES IN THE MATURATION OF INTRINSIC AND SYNAPSE-DRIVEN PATTERNS
12. GABA: A Multifacet Device that Exerts a Crucial Role in Brain Development
Yehezkel Ben-Ari
13. Chloride Homeodynamics Underlying Pathogenic Modal Shifts of GABA Actions
Atsuo Fukuda
14. Multimodal GABAA Receptor Functions on Cell Development
Atsuo Fukuda
15. GABAergic Signaling at Newborn Mossy Fiber–CA3 Synapses: Short- and Long-Term Activity-Dependent Plasticity Processes
Enrico Cherubini and Marilena Griguoli
16. Retinal Waves and their Role in Visual System Development
Marla Feller
17. Neurotransmitter Phenotype Plasticity: from calcium signaling to functional consequences
Nicholas C. Spitzer and Michaël Demarque
18. Developmental Sequences in the Maturation of Intrinsic and Synapse Driven Patterns
Arianna Maffei
19. Functional maturation of neocortical inhibitory interneurons
Andrea Hasenstaub
20. The role of brain-derived neurotrophic factor in neural circuit development and function
Anita E. Autry
21. Striatal circuit development and synapse maturation
Yevgenia Kozorovitskiy
22. Cajal-Retzius and subplate cells: transient cortical neurons and circuits with long-term impact
Heiko J. Luhmann
23. AMPA receptor trafficking in the developing and mature glutamatergic synapse
Harold D. MacGillavry