Suzana Herculano-Houzel
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Suzana Herculano-Houzel is a Brazilian neuroscientist. Her main field of work is comparative neuroanatomy; her findings include a method of counting of neurons of human and other animals' brains and the relation between the cerebral cortex area and thickness and number of cortical folds .
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- Equal numbers of neuronal and nonneuronal cells make the human brain an isometrically scaled‐up primate brain (2009) (1837)
- The Human Brain in Numbers: A Linearly Scaled-up Primate Brain (2009) (1232)
- The search for true numbers of neurons and glial cells in the human brain: A review of 150 years of cell counting (2016) (617)
- Isotropic Fractionator: A Simple, Rapid Method for the Quantification of Total Cell and Neuron Numbers in the Brain (2005) (472)
- The glia/neuron ratio: How it varies uniformly across brain structures and species and what that means for brain physiology and evolution (2014) (433)
- The remarkable, yet not extraordinary, human brain as a scaled-up primate brain and its associated cost (2012) (431)
- Cellular scaling rules for rodent brains (2006) (388)
- Birds have primate-like numbers of neurons in the forebrain (2016) (356)
- Cellular scaling rules for primate brains (2007) (335)
- Changing numbers of neuronal and non-neuronal cells underlie postnatal brain growth in the rat (2009) (335)
- Scaling of Brain Metabolism with a Fixed Energy Budget per Neuron: Implications for Neuronal Activity, Plasticity and Evolution (2011) (257)
- Precisely Synchronized Oscillatory Firing Patterns Require Electroencephalographic Activation (1999) (240)
- Coordinated Scaling of Cortical and Cerebellar Numbers of Neurons (2010) (215)
- Cortical folding scales universally with surface area and thickness, not number of neurons (2015) (182)
- The basic nonuniformity of the cerebral cortex (2008) (162)
- Metabolic constraint imposes tradeoff between body size and number of brain neurons in human evolution (2012) (158)
- Mammalian Brains Are Made of These: A Dataset of the Numbers and Densities of Neuronal and Nonneuronal Cells in the Brain of Glires, Primates, Scandentia, Eulipotyphlans, Afrotherians and Artiodactyls, and Their Relationship with Body Mass (2015) (132)
- A community-based transcriptomics classification and nomenclature of neocortical cell types (2019) (130)
- Connectivity-driven white matter scaling and folding in primate cerebral cortex (2010) (130)
- Not All Brains Are Made the Same: New Views on Brain Scaling in Evolution (2011) (120)
- Numbers of neurons as biological correlates of cognitive capability (2017) (116)
- Distribution of neurons in functional areas of the mouse cerebral cortex reveals quantitatively different cortical zones (2013) (115)
- Brain scaling in mammalian evolution as a consequence of concerted and mosaic changes in numbers of neurons and average neuronal cell size (2014) (104)
- Do You Know Your Brain? A Survey on Public Neuroscience Literacy at the Closing of the Decade of the Brain (2002) (104)
- Different scaling of white matter volume, cortical connectivity, and gyrification across rodent and primate brains (2013) (104)
- Cellular Scaling Rules of Insectivore Brains (2009) (95)
- Cellular Scaling Rules for the Brains of an Extended Number of Primate Species (2010) (93)
- The elephant brain in numbers (2014) (93)
- Updated Neuronal Scaling Rules for the Brains of Glires (Rodents/Lagomorphs) (2011) (93)
- Brains matter, bodies maybe not: the case for examining neuron numbers irrespective of body size (2011) (88)
- How to count cells: the advantages and disadvantages of the isotropic fractionator compared with stereology (2015) (85)
- Neuronal scaling rules for primate brains: the primate advantage. (2012) (77)
- How the Cortex Gets Its Folds: An Inside-Out, Connectivity-Driven Model for the Scaling of Mammalian Cortical Folding (2012) (75)
- No relative expansion of the number of prefrontal neurons in primate and human evolution (2016) (74)
- 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 (2013) (73)
- Gorilla and Orangutan Brains Conform to the Primate Cellular Scaling Rules: Implications for Human Evolution (2011) (70)
- Age-related neuronal loss in the rat brain starts at the end of adolescence (2012) (61)
- White matter volume and white/gray matter ratio in mammalian species as a consequence of the universal scaling of cortical folding (2019) (60)
- Continued Growth of the Central Nervous System without Mandatory Addition of Neurons in the Nile Crocodile (Crocodylus niloticus) (2016) (60)
- Brain scaling in mammalian evolution as a consequence of concerted and mosaic changes in numbers of neurons and average neuronal cell size. (2014) (59)
- Dogs Have the Most Neurons, Though Not the Largest Brain: Trade-Off between Body Mass and Number of Neurons in the Cerebral Cortex of Large Carnivoran Species (2017) (59)
- All brains are made of this: a fundamental building block of brain matter with matching neuronal and glial masses (2014) (58)
- Cellular composition characterizing postnatal development and maturation of the mouse brain and spinal cord (2013) (56)
- The Human Advantage: A New Understanding of How Our Brain Became Remarkable (2016) (54)
- The Human Advantage (2016) (54)
- Cellular Scaling Rules for Primate Spinal Cords (2010) (42)
- Corticalization of motor control in humans is a consequence of brain scaling in primate evolution (2016) (42)
- Cellular scaling rules for the brain of afrotherians (2014) (39)
- Encephalization, Neuronal Excess, and Neuronal Index in Rodents (2007) (36)
- Cellular scaling rules for the brain of Artiodactyla include a highly folded cortex with few neurons (2014) (34)
- When larger brains do not have more neurons: increased numbers of cells are compensated by decreased average cell size across mouse individuals (2015) (34)
- Similar Microglial Cell Densities across Brain Structures and Mammalian Species: Implications for Brain Tissue Function (2020) (33)
- The Continuously Growing Central Nervous System of the Nile Crocodile (Crocodylus niloticus) (2013) (31)
- Faster scaling of visual neurons in cortical areas relative to subcortical structures in non-human primate brains (2013) (29)
- Decreasing sleep requirement with increasing numbers of neurons as a driver for bigger brains and bodies in mammalian evolution (2015) (27)
- Alterations in zebrafish development induced by simvastatin: Comprehensive morphological and physiological study, focusing on muscle (2016) (27)
- Cellular Scaling Rules for the Brains of Marsupials: Not as “Primitive” as Expected (2017) (21)
- Sleep It Out (2013) (21)
- Greater addition of neurons to the olfactory bulb than to the cerebral cortex of eulipotyphlans but not rodents, afrotherians or primates (2014) (21)
- Longevity and sexual maturity vary across species with number of cortical neurons, and humans are no exception (2018) (19)
- What Determines Motor Neuron Number? Slow Scaling of Facial Motor Neuron Numbers With Body Mass in Marsupials and Primates (2012) (18)
- Structural Analysis of Alterations in Zebrafish Muscle Differentiation Induced by Simvastatin and Their Recovery with Cholesterol (2015) (17)
- You Do Not Mess with the Glia (2018) (15)
- Faster Scaling of Auditory Neurons in Cortical Areas Relative to Subcortical Structures in Primate Brains (2013) (15)
- What does the public want to know about the brain? (2003) (14)
- Potential Adult Neurogenesis in the Telencephalon and Cerebellar Cortex of the Nile Crocodile Revealed with Doublecortin Immunohistochemistry (2018) (13)
- Birds do have a brain cortex—and think (2020) (13)
- High associative neuron numbers could drive cognitive performance in corvid species (2022) (12)
- The Isotropic Fractionator: A Fast, Reliable Method to Determine Numbers of Cells in the Brain or Other Tissues (2011) (11)
- What Makes the Human Brain Special: Key Features of Brain and Neocortex (2017) (10)
- Are ectotherm brains vulnerable to global warming? (2021) (9)
- Amplification of potential thermogenetic mechanisms in cetacean brains compared to artiodactyl brains (2020) (8)
- The Remarkable (But Not Extraordinary) Human Brain (2017) (7)
- Life history changes accompany increased numbers of cortical neurons: A new framework for understanding human brain evolution. (2019) (6)
- Cytoarchitectural characteristics associated with cognitive flexibility in raccoons (2021) (6)
- Response to Comments on “Cortical folding scales universally with surface area and thickness, not number of neurons” (2016) (6)
- How to Build a Bigger Brain: Cellular Scaling Rules for Rodent Brains (2007) (6)
- What Modern Mammals Teach About the Cellular Composition of Early Brains and Mechanisms of Brain Evolution (2020) (5)
- Energy supply per neuron is constrained by capillary density in the mouse brain (2020) (5)
- A community-based transcriptomics classification and nomenclature of neocortical cell types (2020) (5)
- From a Demand-Based to a Supply-Limited Framework of Brain Metabolism (2022) (5)
- Theropod dinosaurs had primate-like numbers of telencephalic neurons (2022) (4)
- The Evolution of Evolutionary Neuroscience (2016) (4)
- What the developing cerebral cortex tells about the adult cortex (and vice versa). (2002) (4)
- Corrigendum: Cellular scaling rules for the brain of Artiodactyla include a highly folded cortex with few neurons (2015) (4)
- Microchiropterans have a diminutive cerebral cortex, not an enlarged cerebellum, compared to megachiropterans and other mammals (2020) (3)
- Chapter 1 – Brain Evolution (2012) (3)
- 2.07 – What Modern Mammals Teach About the Cellular Composition of Early Brains and Mechanisms of Brain Evolution (2017) (3)
- The Evolution of Human Capabilities and Abilities (2018) (3)
- The relationship between the number of neurons and behavioral performance in Swiss mice (2020) (3)
- Resting Rates of Blood Flow and Glucose Use per Neuron Are Proportional to Number of Endothelial Cells Available per Neuron Across Sites in the Rat Brain (2022) (2)
- Yves Delage: Neuronal Assemblies, Synchronous Oscillations, and Hebbian Learning in 1919 (1999) (2)
- Embodied (Embrained?) Cognitive Evolution, at Last! (2018) (2)
- Corrigendum: Brain scaling in mammalian evolution as a consequence of concerted and mosaic changes in numbers of neurons and average neuronal cell size (2015) (2)
- Author Correction: A community-based transcriptomics classification and nomenclature of neocortical cell types (2021) (2)
- Mammals, birds and non-avian reptiles have signature proportions of numbers of neurons across their brain structures: Numbers of neurons increased differently with endothermy in birds and mammals (2022) (2)
- Lack of correlation between number of neurons and behavioral performance in Swiss mice (2018) (2)
- Remarkable, But Not Special: What Human Brains Are Made of (2020) (1)
- Could a theropod like T. rex have had human‐like numbers of neurons? (2023) (1)
- What Cortical Expansion (2016) (1)
- Modulation of neuronal synchronous oscillations : dynamic variation with level of cortical activation and long-term use-dependent modification (1999) (1)
- A Body Matter (2016) (1)
- 3.02 – What Primate Brains Are Made of (2017) (1)
- Brain Development: The Generation of Large Brains (2009) (1)
- Psychiatric disorders: The chicken or the egg? (2003) (1)
- The clonal organization of the mammalian CNS: numerical quanta of cerebellar cells define highly specified developmental lineage relationships (2015) (0)
- Marsupial Brains Are Not as “Primitive” as Expected (2017) (0)
- Contents Vol. 81, 2013 (2013) (0)
- Contents Vol. 86, 2015 (2015) (0)
- The Continuously Growing Central Nervous System of the Nile Crocodile (Crocodylus niloticus): Crocodile Brain Growth (2013) (0)
- Supplementary Material for: Cellular Scaling Rules for the Brains of an Extended Number of Primate Species (2017) (0)
- Thank Cooking for Your Neurons (2016) (0)
- Brains or Brawn: You Can’t Have Both (2016) (0)
- The Journal of Comparative Neurology, Table of Content, Vol. 531, No. 9, June, 2023 (2023) (0)
- Lifetime Expectancy (2020) (0)
- What Are Different Brains Made Of? (2017) (0)
- How to count cells: the advantages and disadvantages of the isotropic fractionator compared with stereology (2015) (0)
- Cellular composition characterizing postnatal development and maturation of the mouse brain and spinal cord (2012) (0)
- Mammalian neurobiology: The elephant (brain) in the room (2022) (0)
- Remarkable, but Not Extraordinary (2016) (0)
- Cover Image, Volume 529, Issue 14 (2021) (0)
- Contents Vol. 94, 2019 (2020) (0)
- Book Reviews (1998) (0)
- The Elephant in the Room (2016) (0)
- Supplementary Material for: Cellular Scaling Rules for the Brains of Marsupials: Not as “Primitive” as Expected (2017) (0)
- Neuron-specific coding sequences are the most highly conserved in the mammalian brain (2021) (0)
- Remarkable but Not Extraordinary: (2021) (0)
- … But Plenty of Neurons Aren’t Enough (2016) (0)
- Not All Brains Are Made the Same (2016) (0)
- Contents Vol. 78, 2011 (2011) (0)
- So How Much Does It Cost (2016) (0)
- 2.06 – The Evolution of Mammalian Sleep (2017) (0)
- Author Correction: A community-based transcriptomics classification and nomenclature of neocortical cell types (2021) (0)
- Faster scaling of visual neurons in cortical areas relative to subcortical structures in non-human primate brains (2012) (0)
- Author response for "Microchiropterans have a diminutive cerebral cortex, not an enlarged cerebellum, compared to megachiropterans and other mammals" (2020) (0)
- Epilogue: Our Place in Nature (2016) (0)
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