Torsten Wiesel

Innate mechanisms endow the visual system with highly specific connections, but visual experience early in life is necessary for their maintenance and full development. Deprivation experiments demonstrate that neural connections can be modulated by environmental influences during a critical period of postnatal development.

Swedish Scientist

In the early Sixties, having begun to describe the physiology of cells in the adult cat visual cortex, David Hubel and I decided to investigate how the highly specific response properties of cortical cells emerged during postnatal development.

Used in medical or healthcare settings to describe the period after childbirth.

Medical Context

'Postnatal' may refer to emotional states, such as depression, experienced after childbirth.

Emotional Implications

Although 'postnatal' involves the baby, it often focuses on the mother's condition.

Parental Focus

 they slowly transitioned, and they started to resemble the postnatal brain. We have discovered a brain clock which keeps track of time in a dish and outside of the uterus. Understanding the molecular mechanisms that underlie this brain clock

How We're Reverse...

 there this postnatal care makes it clear that these are highly intelligent and sensitive creatures but something even more remarkable is about to happen