Prolonged myelination in human neocortical evolution

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

Volumn 109, Issue 41, 2012, Pages 16480-16485

  Miller, Daniel J ^a   Duka, Tetyana ^a   Stimpson, Cheryl D ^a   Schapiro, Steven J ^b   Baze, Wallace B ^b   McArthur, Mark J ^b   Fobbs, Archibald J ^c   Sousa, André M M ^d,e   Sěstan, Nenad ^d   Wildman, Derek E ^f   Lipovich, Leonard ^f   Kuzawa, Christopher W ^g   Hof, Patrick R ^h,i   Sherwood, Chet C ^a  

^a GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^c National Museum of Health and Medicine   (United States)

^d YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^f WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^g NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

ⁱ NEW YORK CONSORTIUM IN EVOLUTIONARY PRIMATOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Behavioral maturation; Cortical development; Hominids; Neuropsychiatric illness; Primate

Indexed keywords

MYELIN;

ADOLESCENCE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; CHILDHOOD; CHIMPANZEE; COGNITION; EVOLUTION; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; INFANCY; MYELINATION; NEOCORTEX; NERVE FIBER; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; PERINATAL PERIOD; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SEXUAL MATURITY; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; VISUAL CORTEX;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CHILD; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MOTOR CORTEX; MYELIN PROTEINS; MYELIN SHEATH; MYELIN-ASSOCIATED GLYCOPROTEIN; NEOCORTEX; PAN TROGLODYTES; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; TIME FACTORS; VISUAL CORTEX; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84867356067     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1117943109     Document Type: Article

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