The remarkable, yet not extraordinary, human brain as a scaled-up primate brain and its associated costSuzana Herculano-Houzel
Instituto de Ciencias Biomedicas, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, 21941 902, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 109:10661-8. 2012
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- Updated neuronal scaling rules for the brains of Glires (rodents/lagomorphs)
Suzana Herculano-Houzel
Instituto de Ciencias Biomedicas, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Brain Behav Evol 78:302-14. 2011
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Neuronal scaling rules for primate brains: the primate advantageSuzana Herculano-Houzel
Instituto de Ciencias Biomedicas, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brasil and Instituto Nacional de Neurociência Translacional, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Prog Brain Res 195:325-40. 2012
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- Scaling of brain metabolism with a fixed energy budget per neuron: implications for neuronal activity, plasticity and evolution
Suzana Herculano-Houzel
Instituto de Ciencias Biomedicas, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
PLoS ONE 6:e17514. 2011
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- Brains matter, bodies maybe not: the case for examining neuron numbers irrespective of body size
Suzana Herculano-Houzel
Instituto de Ciencias Biomedicas, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Ann N Y Acad Sci 1225:191-9. 2011
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- Connectivity-driven white matter scaling and folding in primate cerebral cortex
Suzana Herculano-Houzel
Instituto de Ciencias Biomedicas, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, 21941 902 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 107:19008-13. 2010
..We offer a white matter-based mechanism to account for increased cortical folding across species, which we propose to be driven by connectivity-related tension in the white matter, pulling down on the gray matter...
- Not all brains are made the same: new views on brain scaling in evolution
Suzana Herculano-Houzel
Instituto de Ciencias Biomedicas, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, e Instituto Nacional de Neurociência Translacional, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
Brain Behav Evol 78:22-36. 2011
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- Cellular scaling rules for the brains of an extended number of primate species
Mariana Gabi
Instituto de Ciencias Biomedicas, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Brain Behav Evol 76:32-44. 2010
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- The basic nonuniformity of the cerebral cortex
Suzana Herculano-Houzel
Instituto de Ciencias Biomedicas, Universidade Federal Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 105:12593-8. 2008
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- Cellular scaling rules for rodent brains
Suzana Herculano-Houzel
Departamento de Anatomia, Instituto de Ciencias Biomedicas, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, 21941 590, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 103:12138-43. 2006
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- Metabolic constraint imposes tradeoff between body size and number of brain neurons in human evolution
Karina Fonseca-Azevedo
Instituto de Ciencias Biomedicas, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, 21941 590, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 109:18571-6. 2012
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- Gorilla and orangutan brains conform to the primate cellular scaling rules: implications for human evolution
Suzana Herculano-Houzel
Instituto de Ciencias Biomedicas, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, and Instituto Nacional de Neurociência Translacional, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Brain Behav Evol 77:33-44. 2011
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Isotropic fractionator: a simple, rapid method for the quantification of total cell and neuron numbers in the brainSuzana Herculano-Houzel
Departamento de Anatomia, Instituto de Ciencias Biomedicas, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 21941 590
J Neurosci 25:2518-21. 2005
..Moreover, contrary to what is commonly assumed in the literature, we show that glial cells are not the majority in the rat brain...
- Equal numbers of neuronal and nonneuronal cells make the human brain an isometrically scaled-up primate brain
Frederico A C Azevedo
Instituto de Ciencias Biomedicas, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Cidade Universitaria, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
J Comp Neurol 513:532-41. 2009
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- Encephalization, neuronal excess, and neuronal index in rodents
Suzana Herculano-Houzel
Departamento de Anatomia, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Anat Rec (Hoboken) 290:1280-7. 2007
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- Changing numbers of neuronal and non-neuronal cells underlie postnatal brain growth in the rat
Fabiana Bandeira
Instituto de Ciencias Biomedicas, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, 21941 590, Brazil
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 106:14108-13. 2009
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- Different scaling of white matter volume, cortical connectivity, and gyrification across rodent and primate brains
Lissa Ventura-Antunes
Instituto de Ciencias Biomedicas, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro Ilha do Fundão, Brazil Instituto Nacional de Neurociência Translacional, Ministério de Ciência de Tecnologia CNPq Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Front Neuroanat 7:3. 2013
..The different scaling of the white matter has implications for the scaling of propagation time and computational capacity in evolution, and calls for a reappraisal of developmental models of cortical expansion in evolution...
- How the cortex gets its folds: an inside-out, connectivity-driven model for the scaling of Mammalian cortical folding
Bruno Mota
Instituto de Ciencias Biomedicas, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Front Neuroanat 6:3. 2012
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