Extraordinary neoteny of synaptic spines in the human prefrontal cortex

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 108, Issue 32, 2011, Pages 13281-13286

  Petanjek, Zdravko ^a   Judaš, Miloš ^a   Šimić, Goran ^a   Rašin, Mladen Roko ^a,b   Uylings, Harry B M ^c   Rakic, Pasko ^b   Kostović, Ivica ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Association cortex; Critical period; Schizophrenia; Synaptogenesis

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENCE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITIC SPINE; EMOTIONALITY; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT; MALE; NEOTENY; NERVE CELL; NEWBORN; NORMAL HUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBERTY; SCHOOL CHILD; SYNAPTIC MEMBRANE; SYNAPTIC SPINE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DENDRITIC SPINES; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MIDDLE AGED; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PYRAMIDAL CELLS; SYNAPSES; YOUNG ADULT;

PRIMATES;

EID: 80051995858     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1105108108     Document Type: Article

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