Functional craniology and brain evolution: From paleontology to biomedicine

Frontiers in Neuroanatomy

Volumn 8, Issue APR, 2014, Pages

  Bruner, Emiliano ^a   de la Cuétara, José Manuel ^b   Masters, Michael ^c   Amano, Hideki ^d   Ogihara, Naomichi ^d  

^a CENTRO NACIONAL DE INVESTIGACIÓN SOBRE LA EVOLUCIÓN HUMANA CENIEH   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^c MONTANA TECH OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

^d KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; Brain shape; Cranial integration; Morphometrics; Myopia; Paleoneurology; Thermoregulation

Indexed keywords

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; BIOMEDICINE; BRAIN; BRAIN TEMPERATURE; FRONTAL LOBE; FUNCTIONAL CRANIOLOGY; HUMAN; MODEL; MYOPIA; NERVE DEGENERATION; NEUROANATOMY; NONHUMAN; PALEONTOLOGY; PARIETAL LOBE; PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT;

EID: 84897517969     PISSN: 16625129     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnana.2014.00019     Document Type: Article

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