Invariant Synapse Density and Neuronal Connectivity Scaling in Primate Neocortical Evolution

Organization of extrastriate and temporal cortex in chimpanzees compared to humans and macaques

(2019) Katherine L. Bryant et al.   CORTEX

The Protracted Maturation of Associative Layer IIIC Pyramidal Neurons in the Human Prefrontal Cortex During Childhood: A Major Role in Cognitive Development and Selective Alteration in Autism

(2019) Zdravko Petanjek et al.   Frontiers in Psychiatry

Synaptic dysfunction in human neurons with autism-associated deletions in PTCHD1-AS

(2019) P. Joel Ross et al.   BIOLOGICAL PSYCHIATRY

Primate mosaic brain evolution reflects selection on sensory and cognitive specialization

(2019) Alex R. DeCasien et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Primate Brain Anatomy: New Volumetric MRI Measurements for Neuroanatomical Studies

(2018) Ana F. Navarrete et al.   BRAIN BEHAVIOR AND EVOLUTION

Lactate in the brain: from metabolic end-product to signalling molecule

(2018) Pierre J. Magistretti et al.   NATURE REVIEWS NEUROSCIENCE

Comparative ultrastructural features of excitatory synapses in the visual and frontal cortices of the adult mouse and monkey

(2017) Alexander Hsu et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE NEUROLOGY

Human Ageing Genomic Resources: new and updated databases

(2017) Robi Tacutu et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Postnatal Dendritic Growth and Spinogenesis of Layer-V Pyramidal Cells Differ between Visual, Inferotemporal, and Prefrontal Cortex of the Macaque Monkey

(2017) Tomofumi Oga et al.   Frontiers in Neuroscience

Testing species’ deviation from allometric predictions using the phylogenetic regression

(2016) J. B. Smaers et al.   EVOLUTION

SRGAP2 and Its Human-Specific Paralog Co-Regulate the Development of Excitatory and Inhibitory Synapses

(2016) Matteo Fossati et al.   NEURON

Astrocytes: Orchestrating synaptic plasticity?

(2016) M. De Pittà et al.   NEUROSCIENCE

Why Neurons Have Thousands of Synapses, a Theory of Sequence Memory in Neocortex

(2016) Jeff Hawkins et al.   Frontiers in Neural Circuits

Disruption of an Evolutionarily Novel Synaptic Expression Pattern in Autism

(2016) Xiling Liu et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Mammalian Brains Are Made of These: A Dataset of the Numbers and Densities of Neuronal and Nonneuronal Cells in the Brain of Glires, Primates, Scandentia, Eulipotyphlans, Afrotherians and Artiodactyls, and Their Relationship with Body Mass

(2015) Suzana Herculano-Houzel et al.   BRAIN BEHAVIOR AND EVOLUTION

Dendritic and Axonal Architecture of Individual Pyramidal Neurons across Layers of Adult Human Neocortex

(2015) Hemanth Mohan et al.   CEREBRAL CORTEX

Evolutionary Divergence of Gene and Protein Expression in the Brains of Humans and Chimpanzees

(2015) Amy L. Bauernfeind et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

Diversity of Glutamatergic Synaptic Strength in Lateral Prefrontal versus Primary Visual Cortices in the Rhesus Monkey

(2015) M. Medalla et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

The glia/neuron ratio: How it varies uniformly across brain structures and species and what that means for brain physiology and evolution

(2014) Suzana Herculano-Houzel   GLIA

Constancy and trade-offs in the neuroanatomical and metabolic design of the cerebral cortex

(2014) Jan Karbowski   Frontiers in Neural Circuits

A simpler primate brain: the visual system of the marmoset monkey

(2014) Samuel G. Solomon et al.   Frontiers in Neural Circuits

Synaptogenesis and development of pyramidal neuron dendritic morphology in the chimpanzee neocortex resembles humans

(2013) S. Bianchi et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Inhibition of SRGAP2 Function by Its Human-Specific Paralogs Induces Neoteny during Spine Maturation

(2012) Cécile Charrier et al.   CELL

Evolution of Human-Specific Neural SRGAP2 Genes by Incomplete Segmental Duplication

(2012) Megan Y. Dennis et al.   CELL

Mapping the Hierarchical Layout of the Structural Network of the Macaque Prefrontal Cortex

(2012) Alexandros Goulas et al.   CEREBRAL CORTEX

Dendritic Morphology of Pyramidal Neurons in the Chimpanzee Neocortex: Regional Specializations and Comparison to Humans

(2012) S. Bianchi et al.   CEREBRAL CORTEX

Extension of cortical synaptic development distinguishes humans from chimpanzees and macaques

(2012) X. Liu et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

Neuropil distribution in the cerebral cortex differs between humans and chimpanzees

(2012) Muhammad A. Spocter et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE NEUROLOGY

Influence of Highly Distinctive Structural Properties on the Excitability of Pyramidal Neurons in Monkey Visual and Prefrontal Cortices

(2012) J. M. Amatrudo et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Decreased expression of synapse-related genes and loss of synapses in major depressive disorder

(2012) Hyo Jung Kang et al.   NATURE MEDICINE

Approximate Invariance of Metabolic Energy per Synapse during Development in Mammalian Brains

(2012) Jan Karbowski   PLoS One

Comparative Study of Human and Mouse Postsynaptic Proteomes Finds High Compositional Conservation and Abundance Differences for Key Synaptic Proteins

(2012) Àlex Bayés et al.   PLoS One

The remarkable, yet not extraordinary, human brain as a scaled-up primate brain and its associated cost

(2012) S. Herculano-Houzel   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The ventral visual pathway: an expanded neural framework for the processing of object quality

(2012) Dwight J. Kravitz et al.   TRENDS IN COGNITIVE SCIENCES

Rapid metabolic evolution in human prefrontal cortex

(2011) X. Fu et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Extraordinary neoteny of synaptic spines in the human prefrontal cortex

(2011) Zdravko Petanjek et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Inhibitory Plasticity Balances Excitation and Inhibition in Sensory Pathways and Memory Networks

(2011) T. P. Vogels et al.   SCIENCE

The Evolution of the Brain, the Human Nature of Cortical Circuits, and Intellectual Creativity

(2011) Javier DeFelipe   Frontiers in Neuroanatomy

Spatial Organization of Neurons in the Frontal Pole Sets Humans Apart from Great Apes

(2010) K. Semendeferi et al.   CEREBRAL CORTEX

Neocortical synaptophysin asymmetry and behavioral lateralization in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes)

(2010) Chet C. Sherwood et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Spinogenesis and Pruning Scales across Functional Hierarchies

(2009) G. N. Elston et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Inhibitory interneurons of the human prefrontal cortex display conserved evolution of the phenotype and related genes

(2009) C. C. Sherwood et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Gender differences in human cortical synaptic density

(2008) L. Alonso-Nanclares et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Stereologic estimates of total spinophilin-immunoreactive spine number in area 9 and the CA1 field: Relationship with the progression of Alzheimer's disease

(2007) Afia Akram et al.   NEUROBIOLOGY OF AGING