Molecular genetic approaches in small model organisms like Drosophila have helped to
elucidate fundamental principles of neuronal cell biology. Much less is understood about …

Critical periods are temporally-restricted, early-life windows when sensory experience
remodels synaptic connectivity to optimize environmental input. In the Drosophila juvenile …

Sensory experience during developmental critical periods has lifelong consequences for
circuit function and behavior, but the molecular and cellular mechanisms through which …

The optimization of brain circuit connectivity based on initial environmental input occurs
during critical periods characterized by sensory experience-dependent, temporally …

Early-life critical periods allow initial sensory experience to remodel brain circuitry so that
synaptic connectivity can be optimized to environmental input. In the Drosophila juvenile …