Growth and folding of the mammalian cerebral cortex: from molecules to malformations

T Sun, RF Hevner - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2014 - nature.com
The size and extent of folding of the mammalian cerebral cortex are important factors that
influence a species' cognitive abilities and sensorimotor skills. Studies in various animal …

Physical biology of human brain development

S Budday, P Steinmann, E Kuhl - Frontiers in cellular neuroscience, 2015 - frontiersin.org
Neurodevelopment is a complex, dynamic process that involves a precisely orchestrated
sequence of genetic, environmental, biochemical, and physical events. Developmental …

Genetic insights into human cortical organization and development through genome-wide analyses of 2,347 neuroimaging phenotypes

V Warrier, EM Stauffer, QQ Huang, EM Wigdor… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Our understanding of the genetics of the human cerebral cortex is limited both in terms of the
diversity and the anatomical granularity of brain structural phenotypes. Here we conducted a …

Mindboggling morphometry of human brains

A Klein, SS Ghosh, FS Bao, J Giard… - PLoS computational …, 2017 - journals.plos.org
Mindboggle (http://mindboggle. info) is an open source brain morphometry platform that
takes in preprocessed T1-weighted MRI data and outputs volume, surface, and tabular data …

On the growth and form of cortical convolutions

T Tallinen, JY Chung, F Rousseau, N Girard, J Lefèvre… - Nature Physics, 2016 - nature.com
The rapid growth of the human cortex during development is accompanied by the folding of
the brain into a highly convoluted structure,,. Recent studies have focused on the genetic …

Gyrification from constrained cortical expansion

T Tallinen, JY Chung, JS Biggins… - Proceedings of the …, 2014 - pnas.org
The exterior of the mammalian brain—the cerebral cortex—has a conserved layered
structure whose thickness varies little across species. However, selection pressures over …

Growth and remodelling of living tissues: perspectives, challenges and opportunities

D Ambrosi, M Ben Amar, CJ Cyron… - Journal of the …, 2019 - royalsocietypublishing.org
One of the most remarkable differences between classical engineering materials and living
matter is the ability of the latter to grow and remodel in response to diverse stimuli. The …

Cerebral cortex expansion and folding: what have we learned?

V Fernández, C Llinares‐Benadero, V Borrell - The EMBO journal, 2016 - embopress.org
One of the most prominent features of the human brain is the fabulous size of the cerebral
cortex and its intricate folding. Cortical folding takes place during embryonic development …

Brain mechanisms of reality monitoring

JS Simons, JR Garrison, MK Johnson - Trends in cognitive sciences, 2017 - cell.com
Reality monitoring processes are necessary for discriminating between internally generated
information and information that originated in the outside world. They help us to identify our …

[HTML][HTML] The role of mechanics during brain development

S Budday, P Steinmann, E Kuhl - Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of …, 2014 - Elsevier
Convolutions are a classical hallmark of most mammalian brains. Brain surface morphology
is often associated with intelligence and closely correlated with neurological dysfunction …