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

Frontiers in Neuroanatomy

Volumn 7, Issue SEP, 2013, Pages

  Ribeiro, Pedro F M ^a,b   Ventura Antunes, Lissa ^a,b   Gabi, Mariana ^a,b   Mota, Bruno ^a,b   Grinberg, Lea T ^c,d   Farfel, José M ^c   Ferretti Rebustini, Renata E L ^c   Leite, Renata E P ^c   Filho, Wilson J ^c   Herculano Houzel, Suzana ^a,b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^b Instituto Nacional de Neurociência Translacional   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^d HOSPITAL ISRAELITA ALBERT EINSTEIN   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Cortical expansion; Evolution; Human; Occipital cortex; Prefrontal cortex

Indexed keywords

AGED; ANALYZER; ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN SIZE; CELL COMPOSITION; CELL COUNT; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; FEMALE; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; ISOTROPIC FRACTIONATOR; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROANATOMY; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 84885057930     PISSN: 16625129     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnana.2013.00028     Document Type: Article

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