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2000-present    
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Morrow SA, Kaushik T, Zarevics P, Erlanger D, Bear MF, Munschauer FE, Benedict RH.
The effects of L-amphetamine sulfate on cognition in MS patients: results of a randomized controlled trial.
J Neurol. 2009 Jul;256(7):1095-102. Epub 2009 Mar 5.

Wiig KA, Whitlock JR, Epstein MH, Carpenter RL, Bear MF.
The levo enantiomer of amphetamine increases memory consolidation and gene expression in the hippocampus
without producing locomotor stimulation.
Neurobiol Learn Mem. 2009 Jul;92(1):106-13. Epub 2009 Feb 11.

Coleman JE, Law K, Bear MF.
Anatomical origins of ocular dominance in mouse primary visual cortex.
Neuroscience. 2009 Jun 30;161(2):561-71. Epub 2009 Mar 25.

Yoon BJ, Smith GB, Heynen AJ, Neve RL, Bear MF.
Essential role for a long-term depression mechanism in ocular dominance plasticity.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2009 Jun 16;106(24):9860-5. Epub 2009 May 22.

Gavornik JP, Shuler MG, Loewenstein Y, Bear MF, Shouval HZ.
Learning reward timing in cortex through reward dependent expression of synaptic plasticity.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2009 Apr 21;106(16):6826-31. Epub 2009 Apr 3.

Linden ML, Heynen AJ, Haslinger RH, Bear MF.
Thalamic activity that drives visual cortical plasticity.
Nat Neurosci. 2009 Apr;12(4):390-2. Epub 2009 Mar 1.

Cho KK, Khibnik L, Philpot BD, Bear MF.
The ratio of NR2A/B NMDA receptor subunits determines the qualities of ocular dominance plasticity in visual cortex.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2009 Mar 31;106(13):5377-82. Epub 2009 Mar 10.

Smith GB, Heynen AJ, Bear MF.
Bidirectional synaptic mechanisms of ocular dominance plasticity in visual cortex.
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci. 2009 Feb 12;364(1515):357-67.


Lee S, Kim W, Ham BJ, Chen W, Bear MF, Yoon BJ.
Activity-dependent NR2B expression is mediated by MeCP2-dependent epigenetic regulation.
Biochem Biophys Res Commun. 2008 Dec 19;377(3):930-4. Epub 2008 Oct 24.

Kelleher RJ 3rd, Bear MF.
The autistic neuron: troubled translation?
Cell. 2008 Oct 31;135(3):401-6.

Blais BS, Frenkel MY, Kuindersma SR, Muhammad R, Shouval HZ, Cooper LN, Bear MF.
Recovery from monocular deprivation using binocular deprivation.
J Neurophysiol. 2008 Oct;100(4):2217-24. Epub 2008 Jul 23.

Liu CH, Heynen AJ, Shuler MG, Bear MF.
Cannabinoid receptor blockade reveals parallel plasticity mechanisms in different layers of mouse visual cortex.
Neuron. 2008 May 8;58(3):340-5.

Dölen G, Bear MF.
Role for metabotropic glutamate receptor 5 (mGluR5) in the pathogenesis of fragile X syndrome.
J Physiol. 2008 Mar 15;586(6):1503-8. Epub 2008 Jan 17. Review.

Hung AY, Futai K, Sala C, Valtschanoff JG, Ryu J, Woodworth MA, Kidd FL, Sung CC, Miyakawa T, Bear MF, Weinberg RJ, Sheng M.
Smaller dendritic spines, weaker synaptic transmission, but enhanced spatial learning in mice lacking Shank1.
J Neurosci. 2008 Feb 13;28(7):1697-708.

Bear MF, Dölen G, Osterweil E, Nagarajan N.
Fragile X: translation in action.
Neuropsychopharmacology. 2008 Jan;33(1):84-7.

Dölen G, Osterweil E, Rao BS, Smith GB, Auerbach BD, Chattarji S, Bear MF. 
Correction of fragile X syndrome in mice.
Neuron. 2007 Dec 20;56(6):955-62.

Catania MV, D'Antoni S, Bonaccorso CM, Aronica E, Bear MF, Nicoletti F.
Group I metabotropic glutamate receptors: a role in neurodevelopmental disorders?
Mol Neurobiol. 2007 Jun;35(3):298-307.

Philpot BD, Cho KK, Bear MF.
Obligatory Role of NR2A for Metaplasticity in Visual Cortex.
Neuron. 2007 Feb 15;53(4):495-502.


Crozier RA, Wang Y, Liu CH, Bear MF.
Deprivation-induced synaptic depression by distinct mechanisms in different layers of mouse visual cortex.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 Jan 23;104(4):1383-8.


Whitlock JR, Heynen AJ, Shuler MG, Bear MF.
Learning induces long-term potentiation in the hippocampus.
Science. 2006 Aug 25;313(5790):1093-7.

Morishita W, Lu W, Smith GB, Nicoll RA, Bear MF, Malenka RC.
Activation of NR2B-containing NMDA receptors is not required for NMDA receptor-dependent long-term depression.
Neuropharmacology, 2007 Jan; 52(1): 71-6.

Chen WS, Bear MF.
Activity-dependent regulation of NR2B translation contributes to metaplasticity in mouse visual cortex.
Neuropharmacology 2007 Jan; 52(1): 200-14.

Frenkel MY, Sawtell NB, Diogo AC, Yoon B, Neve RL, Bear MF.
Instructive effect of visual experience in mouse visual cortex.
Neuron. 2006 Aug 3;51(3):339-49.

Iny K, Heynen AJ, Sklar E, Bear MF.
Bidirectional modifications of visual acuity induced by monocular deprivation in juvenile and adult rats.

J Neurosci. 2006 Jul 12;26(28):7368-74.

Rittenhouse CD, Siegler BA, Voelker CA, Shouval HZ, Paradiso MA, Bear MF.
The Stimulus for Rapid Ocular Dominance Plasticity in Visual Cortex.
J Neurophysiol. 2006 May; 95(5): 2947-50.

Shuler MG, Bear MF.
Reward timing in the primary visual cortex.
Science. 2006 Mar 17;311(5767):1606-9.


Bear MF
Therapeutic implications of the mGluR theory of fragile X mental retardation.
Genes Brain Behav. 2005 Aug;4(6):393-8. Review

Dölen G and Bear MF
Courting a cure for fragile X.
Neuron. 2005 Mar 3;45(5):642-4. Review

Snyder EM, Colledge M, Crozier RA, Chen WS, Scott JD, Bear MF
Role for A kinase-anchoring proteins (AKAPS) in glutamate receptor trafficking and long term synaptic depression.
J Biol Chem. 2005 Apr 29;280(17):16962-8.


Frenkel, MY and Bear, MF
How monocular deprivation shifts ocular dominance in visual cortex of young mice.
Neuron. 2004 Dec 16;44(6):917-23.

Malenka, RC and Bear MF
LTP and LTD: an embarrassment of riches.
Neuron. 2004 Sep 30;44(1):5-21. Review

Wallace, W. and Bear, M.F.
A morphological correlate of synaptic scaling in visual cortex
J. Neurosci. 2004 Aug; 24(31):6928-6938

Bear, M.F., Huber, K.M., and Warren, S.T.
The mGluR theory of fragile x mental retardation.
Trends in Neuroscience 2004 Jul; 27(7): 370-377. Review

Nahm, W.K., Philpot, B.D., Adams, M.M., Badiavas, E.V., Zhou, L.H., Butmarc, J., Bear, M.F. and Falanga, V.
Significance of N-methyl-d-(NMDA) receptor-mediated signaling in human keratinocytes.
J. Cellular Physiology 2004 Aug; 200(2):309-17

Gallagher SM, Daly CA, Bear MF, Huber KM.
Extracellular signal-regulated protein kinase activation is required for metabotropic glutamate receptor-dependent long-term depression in hippocampal area CA1.
J Neurosci. 2004 May 19; 24(20):4859-64.


Jackson, J.D., Yezzi, A.J., Wallace, W. and Bear, M.F.
Segmentation of coarse and fine scale features using multi-scale diffusion and Mumford-Shah.
In Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2003, 2695: 615-624

Colledge M, Snyder EM, Crozier RA, Soderling JA, Jin Y, Langeberg LK, Lu H, Bear MF, Scott JD.
Ubiquitination regulates PSD-95 degradation and AMPA receptor surface expression.
Neuron. 2003 Oct 30;40(3):595-607.

Heynen AJ, Yoon B-J, Liu C-H, Chung HJ, Huganir RL, Bear MF.
Molecular mechanism for loss of visual cortical responsiveness following brief monocular deprivation.
Nat Neurosci. 2003 Aug;6(8):854-862

Sawtell NB, Frenkel MY, Philpot BD, Nakazawa K, Tonegawa S, Bear MF.
NMDA Receptor-Dependent Ocular Dominance Plasticity in Adult Visual Cortex.
Neuron. 2003 Jun 19;38(6):977-85.

Bear MF.
Bidirectional synaptic plasticity: from theory to reality.
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci. 2003 Apr 29;358(1432):649-55. Review


Shouval HZ, Bear MF, Cooper LN.
A unified model of NMDA receptor-dependent bidirectional synaptic plasticity.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 Jul 22

Huber KM, Gallagher SM, Warren ST, Bear MF.
Altered synaptic plasticity in a mouse model of fragile X mental retardation.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 May 28;99(11):7746-50.

Philpot BD, Bear MF.
Synaptic plasticity in an altered state.
Neuron. 2002 Feb 28;33(5):665-7.


Heynen AJ, Bear MF.
Long-term potentiation of thalamocortical transmission in the adult visual cortex in vivo.
J Neurosci. 2001 Dec 15;21(24):9801-13.

Wells DG, Dong X, Quinlan EM, Huang YS, Bear MF, Richter JD, Fallon JR.
A role for the cytoplasmic polyadenylation element in NMDA receptor-regulated mRNA translation in neurons.
J Neurosci. 2001 Dec 15;21(24):9541-8.

Zeng H, Chattarji S, Barbarosie M, Rondi-Reig L, Philpot BD, Miyakawa T, Bear MF, Tonegawa S.
Forebrain-specific calcineurin knockout selectively impairs bidirectional synaptic plasticity and working/episodic-like memory.
Cell. 2001 Nov 30;107(5):617-29.

Snyder EM, Philpot BD, Huber KM, Dong X, Fallon JR, Bear MF.
Internalization of ionotropic glutamate receptors in response to mGluR activation.
Nat Neurosci. 2001 Nov;4(11):1079-85.

Philpot BD, Weisberg MP, Ramos MS, Sawtell NB, Tang YP, Tsien JZ, Bear MF.
Effect of transgenic overexpression of NR2B on NMDA receptor function and synaptic plasticity in visual cortex.
Neuropharmacology. 2001 Nov;41(6):762-70.

Abraham WC, Mason-Parker SE, Bear MF, Webb S, Tate WP.
Heterosynaptic metaplasticity in the hippocampus in vivo: a BCM-like modifiable threshold for LTP.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2001 Sep 11;98(19):10924-9.

Rozas C, Frank H, Heynen AJ, Morales B, Bear MF, Kirkwood A.
Developmental inhibitory gate controls the relay of activity to the superficial layers of the visual cortex.
J Neurosci. 2001 Sep 1;21(17):6791-801.

Huber KM, Roder JC, Bear MF.
Chemical induction of mGluR5- and protein synthesis--dependent long-term depression in hippocampal area CA1.
J Neurophysiol. 2001 Jul;86(1):321-5.

Philpot BD, Sekhar AK, Shouval HZ, Bear MF.
Visual experience and deprivation bidirectionally modify the composition and function of NMDA receptors in visual cortex.
Neuron. 2001 Jan;29(1):157-69. Shouval HZ, Bear MF, Cooper LN.


Heynen AJ, Quinlan EM, Bae DC, Bear MF.
Bidirectional, activity-dependent regulation of glutamate receptors in the adult hippocampus in vivo.
Neuron. 2000 Nov;28(2):527-36.

Lee HK, Barbarosie M, Kameyama K, Bear MF, Huganir RL.
Regulation of distinct AMPA receptor phosphorylation sites during bidirectional synaptic plasticity.
Nature. 2000 Jun 22;405(6789):955-9.

Huber KM, Kayser MS, Bear MF.
Role for rapid dendritic protein synthesis in hippocampal mGluR-dependent long-term depression.
Science. 2000 May 19;288(5469):1254-7


1990-1999    [back to top]

Bear MF, Colman H. 
Binocular competition in the control of geniculate cell size depends upon visual cortical N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor activation.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1990 Dec;87(23):9246-9.

Barstad KE, Bear MF. 
Basal forebrain projections to somatosensory cortex in the cat.
J Neurophysiol. 1990 Oct;64(4):1223-32.

Juliano SL, Ma W, Bear MF, Eslin D. 
Cholinergic manipulation alters stimulus-evoked metabolic activity in cat somatosensory cortex.
J Comp Neurol. 1990 Jul 1;297(1):106-20.

Bear MF, Kleinschmidt A, Gu QA, Singer W. 
Disruption of experience-dependent synaptic modifications in striate cortex by infusion of an NMDA receptor antagonist.
J Neurosci. 1990 Mar;10(3):909-25.

Feldman D, Sherin JE, Press WA, Bear MF. 
N-methyl-D-aspartate-evoked calcium uptake by kitten visual cortex maintained in vitro.
Exp Brain Res. 1990;80(2):252-9.


Clothiaux EE, Bear MF, Cooper LN. 
Synaptic plasticity in visual cortex: comparison of theory with experiment.
J Neurophysiol. 1991 Nov;66(5):1785-804.

Alkon DL, Amaral DG, Bear MF, Black J, Carew TJ, Cohen NJ, Disterhoft JF, Eichenbaum H, Golski S, Gorman LK, et al. 
Learning and memory. FESN Study Group.
Brain Res Brain Res Rev. 1991 May-Aug;16(2):193-220. Review

Reynolds IJ, Bear MF. 
Effects of age and visual experience on [3H] MK801 binding to NMDA receptors in the kitten visual cortex.
Exp Brain Res. 1991;85(3):611-5.

Bear MF, Dudek SM. 
Stimulation of phosphoinositide turnover by excitatory amino acids. Pharmacology, development, and role in visual cortical plasticity.
Ann N Y Acad Sci. 1991;627:42-56. Review.


Bohner AP, Dudek SM, Bear MF. 
Effects of N-methyl-D-aspartate on quisqualate-stimulated phosphoinositide hydrolysis in slices of kitten striate cortex.
Brain Res. 1992 Oct 23;594(1):146-9.

Dudek SM, Bear MF. 
Homosynaptic long-term depression in area CA1 of hippocampus and effects of N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor blockade.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1992 May 15;89(10):4363-7.

Bear MF, Press WA, Connors BW. 
Long-term potentiation in slices of kitten visual cortex and the effects of NMDA receptor blockade.
J Neurophysiol. 1992 Apr;67(4):841-51.


Dudek SM, Bear MF. 
Bidirectional long-term modification of synaptic effectiveness in the adult and immature hippocampus.
J Neurosci. 1993 Jul;13(7):2910-8.

Kirkwood A, Dudek SM, Gold JT, Aizenman CD, Bear MF. 
Common forms of synaptic plasticity in the hippocampus and neocortex in vitro.
Science. 1993 Jun 4;260(5113):1518-21.

Bear MF, Kirkwood A. 
Neocortical long-term potentiation.
Curr Opin Neurobiol. 1993 Apr;3(2):197-202. Review.


Bear MF, Malenka RC. 
Synaptic plasticity: LTP and LTD.
Curr Opin Neurobiol. 1994 Jun;4(3):389-99. Review.

Kirkwood A, Bear MF. 
Homosynaptic long-term depression in the visual cortex.
J Neurosci. 1994 May;14(5 Pt 2):3404-12.

Gold JI, Bear MF. 
A model of dendritic spine Ca2+ concentration exploring possible bases for a sliding synaptic modification threshold.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1994 Apr 26;91(9):3941-5.

Kirkwood A, Bear MF. 
Hebbian synapses in visual cortex.
J Neurosci. 1994 Mar;14(3 Pt 2):1634-45.

Law CC, Bear MF, Cooper LN. 
Role of the visual environment in the formation of receptive fields according to the BCM theory.
Prog Brain Res. 1994;102:287-301. Review.


Selig DK, Lee HK, Bear MF, Malenka RC. 
Reexamination of the effects of MCPG on hippocampal LTP, LTD, and depotentiation.
J Neurophysiol. 1995 Sep;74(3):1075-82.

Bear MF. 
Mechanism for a sliding synaptic modification threshold.
Neuron. 1995 Jul;15(1):1-4. Review

Kirkwood A, Lee HK, Bear MF. 
Co-regulation of long-term potentiation and experience-dependent synaptic plasticity in visual cortex by age and experience.
Nature. 1995 May 25;375 (6529):328-31.

Kirkwood A, Bear MF. 
Elementary forms of synaptic plasticity in the visual cortex.
Biol Res. 1995;28(1):73-80. Review.


Bear MF.
A synaptic basis for memory storage in the cerebral cortex.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1996 Nov 26;93(24):13453-9. Review.

Aizenman CD, Kirkwood A, Bear MF.
A current source density analysis of evoked responses in slices of adult rat visual cortex: implications for the regulation of long-term potentiation.
Cereb Cortex. 1996 Nov-Dec;6(6):751-8.

Kirkwood A, Rioult MC, Bear MF.
Experience-dependent modification of synaptic plasticity in visual cortex.
Nature. 1996 Jun 6;381(6582):526-8.

Heynen AJ, Abraham WC, Bear MF.
Bidirectional modification of CA1 synapses in the adult hippocampus in vivo.
Nature. 1996 May 9;381(6578):163-6.

Abraham WC, Bear MF.
Metaplasticity: the plasticity of synaptic plasticity.
Trends Neurosci. 1996 Apr;19(4):126-30. Review

Bear MF.
Progress in understanding NMDA-receptor-dependent synaptic plasticity in the visual cortex.
J Physiol Paris. 1996;90(3-4):223-7. Review

Bear MF.
NMDA-receptor-dependent synaptic plasticity in the visual cortex.
Prog Brain Res. 1996;108:205-18. Review

Bear MF, Abraham WC.
Long-term depression in hippocampus.
Annu Rev Neurosci. 1996;19:437-62. Review.

Wiig KA, Cooper LN, Bear MF.
Temporally graded retrograde amnesia following separate and combined lesions of the perirhinal cortex and fornix in the rat.
Learn Mem. 1996 Nov-Dec;3(4):313-25.

Kirkwood A, Silva A, Bear MF.
Age-dependent decrease of synaptic plasticity in the neocortex of alphaCaMKII mutant mice.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1997 Apr 1;94(7):3380-3.


Bear MF.
How do memories leave their mark?
Nature. 1997 Feb 6;385(6616):481-2.


Kameyama K, Lee HK, Bear MF, Huganir RL.
Involvement of a postsynaptic protein kinase A substrate in the expression of homosynaptic long-term depression.
Neuron. 1998 Nov;21(5):1163-75.

Lee HK, Kameyama K, Huganir RL, Bear MF.
NMDA induces long-term synaptic depression and dephosphorylation of the GluR1 subunit of AMPA receptors in hippocampus.
Neuron. 1998 Nov;21(5):1151-62.

Huber KM, Sawtell NB, Bear MF.
Brain-derived neurotrophic factor alters the synaptic modification threshold in visual cortex.
Neuropharmacology. 1998 Apr-May;37(4-5):571-9.

Huber KM, Sawtell NB, Bear MF.
Effects of the metabotropic glutamate receptor antagonist MCPG on phosphoinositide turnover and synaptic plasticity in visual cortex.
J Neurosci. 1998 Jan 1;18(1):1-9.


Sawtell NB, Huber KM, Roder JC, Bear MF.
Induction of NMDA receptor-dependent long-term depression in visual cortex does not require metabotropic glutamate receptors.
J Neurophysiol. 1999 Dec;82(6):3594-7.

Quinlan EM, Olstein DH, Bear MF.
Bidirectional, experience-dependent regulation of N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor subunit composition in the rat visual cortex during postnatal development.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 Oct 26;96(22):12876-80.

Bear MF, Rittenhouse CD.
Molecular basis for induction of ocular dominance plasticity.
J Neurobiol. 1999 Oct;41(1):83-91. Review.

Huang ZJ, Kirkwood A, Pizzorusso T, Porciatti V, Morales B, Bear MF, Maffei L, Tonegawa S.
BDNF regulates the maturation of inhibition and the critical period of plasticity in mouse visual cortex.
Cell. 1999 Sep 17;98(6):739-55.

Bear MF.
Homosynaptic long-term depression: a mechanism for memory?
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 Aug 17;96(17):9457-8. Review.

Quinlan EM, Philpot BD, Huganir RL, Bear MF.
Rapid, experience-dependent expression of synaptic NMDA receptors in visual cortex in vivo.
Nat Neurosci. 1999 Apr;2(4):352-7.

Taubenfeld SM, Wiig KA, Bear MF, Alberini CM.
A molecular correlate of memory and amnesia in the hippocampus.
Nat Neurosci. 1999 Apr;2(4):309-10. No abstract available.

Kirkwood A, Rozas C, Kirkwood J, Perez F, Bear MF.
Modulation of long-term synaptic depression in visual cortex by acetylcholine and norepinephrine.
J Neurosci. 1999 Mar 1;19(5):1599-609.

Rittenhouse CD, Shouval HZ, Paradiso MA, Bear MF.
Monocular deprivation induces homosynaptic long-term depression in visual cortex.
Nature. 1999 Jan 28;397(6717):347-50.


1980-1989    [back to top]

Carey RG, Bear MF, Diamond IT. 
The laminar organization of the reciprocal projections between the claustrum and striate cortex in the tree shrew, Tupaia glis.
Brain Res. 1980 Feb 17;184(1):193-8.


Bear MF, Ebner FF. 
Somatostatin-like immunoreactivity in the forebrain of Pseudemys turtles.
Neuroscience. 1983 Jun; 9(2):297-307.

Bear MF, Paradiso MA, Schwartz M, Nelson SB, Carnes KM, Daniels JD. 
Two methods of catecholamine depletion in kitten visual cortex yield different effects on plasticity.
Nature. 1983 Mar 17-23;302(5905):245-7.

Bear MF, Daniels JD. 
The plastic response to monocular deprivation persists in kitten visual cortex after chronic depletion of norepinephrine.
J Neurosci. 1983 Feb;3(2):407-16.


Haycock DA, Bear MF. 
The stability of 6-hydroxydopamine under minipump conditions.
Exp Brain Res. 1984;56(1):183-6.


Bear MF, Carnes KM, Ebner FF. 
Postnatal changes in the distribution of acetylcholinesterase in kitten striate cortex.
J Comp Neurol. 1985 Jul 22;237(4):519-32.

Bear MF, Schmechel DE, Ebner FF. 
Glutamic acid decarboxylase in the striate cortex of normal and monocularly deprived kittens.
J Neurosci. 1985 May;5(5):1262-75.

Hohmann CF, Bear MF, Ebner FF. 
Glutamic acid decarboxylase activity decreases in mouse neocortex after lesions of the basal forebrain.
Brain Res. 1985 Apr 29;333(1):165-8.

Bear MF, Carnes KM, Ebner FF. 
An investigation of cholinergic circuitry in cat striate cortex using acetylcholinesterase histochemistry.
J Comp Neurol. 1985 Apr 22;234(4):411-30.


Bear MF, Singer W. 
Modulation of visual cortical plasticity by acetylcholine and noradrenaline.
Nature. 1986 Mar 13-19;320(6058):172-6.


Kleinschmidt A, Bear MF, Singer W. 
Blockade of "NMDA" receptors disrupts experience-dependent plasticity of kitten striate cortex.
Science. 1987 Oct 16;238(4825):355-8.

Bear MF, Cooper LN, Ebner FF. 
A physiological basis for a theory of synapse modification.
Science. 1987 Jul 3;237(4810):42-8.


Bear MF, Kleinschmidt A, Singer W. 
Experience-dependent modifications of kitten striate cortex are not prevented by thalamic lesions that include the intralaminar nuclei.
Exp Brain Res. 1988;70(3):627-31.


Dudek SM, Bear MF. 
A biochemical correlate of the critical period for synaptic modification in the visual cortex.
Science. 1989 Nov 3;246(4930):673-5.

Gu QA, Bear MF, Singer W. 
Blockade of NMDA-receptors prevents ocularity changes in kitten visual cortex after reversed monocular deprivation.
Brain Res Dev Brain Res. 1989 Jun 1;47(2):281-8.

Neve RL, Bear MF. 
Visual experience regulates gene expression in the developing striate cortex.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1989 Jun;86(12):4781-4.

Dudek SM, Bowen WD, Bear MF. 
Postnatal changes in glutamate stimulated phosphoinositide turnover in rat neocortical synaptoneurosomes.
Brain Res Dev Brain Res. 1989 May 1;47(1):123-8.

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