Physical biology of human brain development

Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience

Volumn 9, Issue JULY, 2015, Pages

  Budday, Silvia ^a   Steinmann, Paul ^a   Kuhl, Ellen ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Connectivity; Cortical folding; Differential growth; Lissencephaly; Neurodevelopment; Polymicrogyria; Synaptogenesis

Indexed keywords

AGYRIA; ALEXANDER DISEASE; ANGIOGENESIS; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CELL DIVISION; CELL MIGRATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONNECTOME; CORTICAL THICKNESS (BRAIN); GESTATION PERIOD; GYNOGENESIS; HUMAN; MICROCEPHALY; MICROGLIA; MICROGYRIA; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NERVE GROWTH; NEUROBIOLOGY; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; OLIGODENDROGLIA; REVIEW; SYNAPTOGENESIS;

EID: 84936948939     PISSN: 16625102     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fncel.2015.00257     Document Type: Review

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