The search for true numbers of neurons and glial cells in the human brain: A review of 150 years of cell counting

Astrocytes in physiological aging and Alzheimer’s disease

(2016) J.J. Rodríguez-Arellano et al.   NEUROSCIENCE

Quantitative techniques for imaging cells and tissues

(2015) Christopher S. von Bartheld et al.   CELL AND TISSUE RESEARCH

Update on stereology for light microscopy

(2015) Stefano Geuna et al.   CELL AND TISSUE RESEARCH

How to count cells: the advantages and disadvantages of the isotropic fractionator compared with stereology

(2015) Suzana Herculano-Houzel et al.   CELL AND TISSUE RESEARCH

How scientists fool themselves – and how they can stop

(2015) Regina Nuzzo   NATURE

Neuronal factors determining high intelligence

(2015) Ursula Dicke et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Neuroglial Transmission

(2015) Vidar Gundersen et al.   PHYSIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Glial cells as key players in schizophrenia pathology: recent insights and concepts of therapy

(2015) Hans-Gert Bernstein et al.   SCHIZOPHRENIA RESEARCH

A New Outlook on Mental Illnesses: Glial Involvement Beyond the Glue

(2015) Maha Elsayed et al.   Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience

Neuroglia in ageing and disease

(2014) Alexei Verkhratsky et al.   CELL AND TISSUE RESEARCH

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

A post-mortem stereological study of striatal cell number in human obesity

(2014) Christopher M. Weise et al.   Obesity

All brains are made of this: a fundamental building block of brain matter with matching neuronal and glial masses

(2014) Bruno Mota et al.   Frontiers in Neuroanatomy

Three counting methods agree on cell and neuron number in chimpanzee primary visual cortex

(2014) Daniel J. Miller et al.   Frontiers in Neuroanatomy

Acido, ergo sum: Holger Hydén – the neuroscientist in Cortázar's Hopscotch

(2013) Guillermo Delgado et al.   ARQUIVOS DE NEURO-PSIQUIATRIA

Disease duration and the integrity of the nigrostriatal system in Parkinson’s disease

(2013) Jeffrey H. Kordower et al.   BRAIN

Cell number changes in Alzheimer's disease relate to dementia, not to plaques and tangles

(2013) C. H. Andrade-Moraes et al.   BRAIN

Forebrain Engraftment by Human Glial Progenitor Cells Enhances Synaptic Plasticity and Learning in Adult Mice

(2013) Xiaoning Han et al.   Cell Stem Cell

Systematic, Cross-Cortex Variation in Neuron Numbers in Rodents and Primates

(2013) C. J. Charvet et al.   CEREBRAL CORTEX

Validation of the isotropic fractionator: Comparison with unbiased stereology and DNA extraction for quantification of glial cells

(2013) Jami Bahney et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE METHODS

Structural uniformity of neocortex, revisited

(2013) C. Nikoosh Carlo et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Glia and epilepsy: excitability and inflammation

(2013) Orrin Devinsky et al.   TRENDS IN NEUROSCIENCES

The human cerebral cortex is neither one nor many: neuronal distribution reveals two quantitatively different zones in the gray matter, three in the white matter, and explains local variations in cortical folding

(2013) Pedro F. M. Ribeiro et al.   Frontiers in Neuroanatomy

Automatic isotropic fractionation for large-scale quantitative cell analysis of nervous tissue

(2012) Frederico A.C. Azevedo et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE METHODS

The isotropic fractionator provides evidence for differential loss of hippocampal neurons in two mouse models of Alzheimer's disease

(2012) Hannah Brautigam et al.   Molecular Neurodegeneration

Effect of age on neocortical brain cells in 90+ year old human females—a cell counting study

(2012) Katrine Fabricius et al.   NEUROBIOLOGY OF AGING

Stereological Analysis of Neuron, Glial and Endothelial Cell Numbers in the Human Amygdaloid Complex

(2012) María García-Amado 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

Use of flow cytometry for high-throughput cell population estimates in brain tissue

(2012) Nicole A. Young et al.   Frontiers in Neuroanatomy

Not All Brains Are Made the Same: New Views on Brain Scaling in Evolution

(2011) Suzana Herculano-Houzel   BRAIN BEHAVIOR AND EVOLUTION

Total Numbers of Neurons and Glial Cells in Cortex and Basal Ganglia of Aged Brains with Down Syndrome--A Stereological Study

(2011) A. S. Karlsen et al.   CEREBRAL CORTEX

How many neurons do you have? Some dogmas of quantitative neuroscience under revision

(2011) Roberto Lent et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Scaling of Brain Metabolism and Blood Flow in Relation to Capillary and Neural Scaling

(2011) Jan Karbowski   PLoS One

NEURON AND GLIAL CELL NUMBERS IN THE MEDIODORSAL THALAMIC NUCLEUS IN BRAINS OF SCHIZOPHRENIC SUBJECTS

(2011) Rune Damgaard Nielsen et al.   Image Analysis & Stereology

UNBIASED STEREOLOGICAL ESTIMATION OF DIFFERENT CELL TYPES IN RAT CEREBRAL CORTEX

(2011) Maziar Davanlou et al.   Image Analysis & Stereology

Microglial Activation and Increased Microglial Density Observed in the Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex in Autism

(2010) John T. Morgan et al.   BIOLOGICAL PSYCHIATRY

Differential distribution of neurons in the gyral white matter of the human cerebral cortex

(2010) V. García-Marín et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE NEUROLOGY

Calibration of the stereological estimation of the number of myelinated axons in the rat sciatic nerve: A multicenter study

(2010) S. Kaplan et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE METHODS

Neuroscience: Settling the great glia debate

(2010) Kerri Smith   NATURE

Stereological quantification of the cerebellum in patients with Alzheimer's disease

(2010) Kjeld Andersen et al.   NEUROBIOLOGY OF AGING

Change in the Brain's White Matter

(2010) R. D. Fields   SCIENCE

Are there ten times more glia than neurons in the brain?

(2009) Claus C. Hilgetag et al.   Brain Structure & Function

The human brain in numbers: a linearly scaled-up primate brain

(2009) Suzana Herculano-Houzel   Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Equal numbers of neuronal and nonneuronal cells make the human brain an isometrically scaled-up primate brain

(2009) Frederico A.C. Azevedo et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE NEUROLOGY

Correlations of Neuronal and Microvascular Densities in Murine Cortex Revealed by Direct Counting and Colocalization of Nuclei and Vessels

(2009) P. S. Tsai et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

An empirical analysis of the precision of estimating the numbers of neurons and glia in human neocortex using a fractionator-design with sub-sampling

(2009) Lise Lyck et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE METHODS

Neuroscience: Glia — more than just brain glue

(2009) Nicola J. Allen et al.   NATURE

Changing numbers of neuronal and non-neuronal cells underlie postnatal brain growth in the rat

(2009) F. Bandeira et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Volume and neuron number of the lateral geniculate nucleus in schizophrenia and mood disorders

(2008) Karl-Anton Dorph-Petersen et al.   ACTA NEUROPATHOLOGICA

The scalable mammalian brain: emergent distributions of glia and neurons

(2008) Janneke F. M. Jehee et al.   BIOLOGICAL CYBERNETICS

A novel approach to non-biased systematic random sampling: A stereologic estimate of Purkinje cells in the human cerebellum

(2008) Rajiv M. Agashiwala et al.   BRAIN RESEARCH

Neuroanatomy of autism

(2008) David G. Amaral et al.   TRENDS IN NEUROSCIENCES

Neocortical glial cell numbers in human brains

(2007) D.P. Pelvig et al.   NEUROBIOLOGY OF AGING

Morphometry of the human cerebral cortex microcirculation: General characteristics and space-related profiles

(2007) Frederic Lauwers et al.   NEUROIMAGE