Neonatal sensory nerve damage alters sensory maps in the CNS and results in substantial synaptic reorganization.
In rats and mice, neonatal infraorbital nerve lesions lead to conversion of functional synapses to silent synapses.
Sensory nerve damage causes convergence of multipletrigeminal afferents on single neurons in the trigeminal brainstem.
Injury-induced synaptic plasticity does not follow the timing ofthe critical period for structural plasticity.
Effects of neonatal sensory nerve transection and crushare quite different in the CNS.