The human brain: Rewired and running hot

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1225, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2011, Pages

  Preuss, Todd M ^a,b  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cerebral metabolism; Evolution; Genomics; Hominid; Neuroimaging

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BODY SIZE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN MAPPING; CHIMPANZEE; ENERGY METABOLISM; EVOLUTIONARY DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; HUMAN; INTRAPARIETAL SULCUS; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PROMOTER REGION; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; THALAMOCORTICAL TRACT;

HOMINIDAE; PAN; PRIMATES;

EID: 79956225758     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2011.06001.x     Document Type: Article

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