Role of mechanical factors in the morphology of the primate cerebral cortex

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 146-159

  Hilgetag, Claus C ^a,b   Barbas, Helen ^b,c,d  

^a JACOBS UNIVERSITY BREMEN   (Germany)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISEASES; MAMMALS;

CELLULAR MIGRATION; CEREBRAL CORTEX; COMPUTATIONAL MODELLING; CORTEXES; CORTICAL FOLDING; FINE STRUCTURES; MECHANICAL FACTORS; MORPHO-LOGICS; PHYSICAL PRINCIPLES; PREFRONTAL CORTEX;

MORPHOLOGY;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTISM; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; HYPOTHESIS; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIMATE; SCHIZOPHRENIA; ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; BIOLOGY; BRAIN MAPPING; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; NERVE CELL; NERVE FIBER; NERVE TRACT; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RHESUS MONKEY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ANIMALIA; PRIMATES;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; AUTISTIC DISORDER; AXONS; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; HUMANS; MACACA MULATTA; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SCHIZOPHRENIA;

EID: 33645769546     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.0020022     Document Type: Article

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