List of works - Suzana Herculano-Houzel

Equal numbers of neuronal and nonneuronal cells make the human brain an isometrically scaled-up primate brain

scientific article

The human brain in numbers: a linearly scaled-up primate brain

scientific article published in 2009

Isotropic fractionator: a simple, rapid method for the quantification of total cell and neuron numbers in the brain.

scientific article

Cellular scaling rules for primate brains

scientific article

Cellular scaling rules for rodent brains

scholarly article

The glia/neuron ratio: how it varies uniformly across brain structures and species and what that means for brain physiology and evolution

scientific article published on 07 May 2014

Changing numbers of neuronal and non-neuronal cells underlie postnatal brain growth in the rat.

scholarly article

The remarkable, yet not extraordinary, human brain as a scaled-up primate brain and its associated cost

scientific article published on June 20, 2012

The search for true numbers of neurons and glial cells in the human brain: A review of 150 years of cell counting

scientific article published on 17 May 2016

Scaling of Brain Metabolism with a Fixed Energy Budget per Neuron: Implications for Neuronal Activity, Plasticity and Evolution

scientific article published on March 1, 2011

Birds have primate-like numbers of neurons in the forebrain

scientific article

Coordinated scaling of cortical and cerebellar numbers of neurons

scientific article published on March 10, 2010

The basic nonuniformity of the cerebral cortex

scholarly article

Not all brains are made the same: new views on brain scaling in evolution

scientific article published on 17 June 2011

Connectivity-driven white matter scaling and folding in primate cerebral cortex

scientific article (publication date: 2 November 2010)

Cortical folding scales universally with surface area and thickness, not number of neurons

scientific article published on July 3, 2015

Cellular scaling rules for the brains of an extended number of primate species

scientific article

Distribution of neurons in functional areas of the mouse cerebral cortex reveals quantitatively different cortical zones

scientific article published on 21 October 2013

Precisely synchronized oscillatory firing patterns require electroencephalographic activation

scientific article published in May 1999

Cellular scaling rules of insectivore brains

scientific article (publication date: 2009)

Updated neuronal scaling rules for the brains of Glires (rodents/lagomorphs)

scientific article (publication date: 2011)

Metabolic constraint imposes tradeoff between body size and number of brain neurons in human evolution

scientific article (publication date: 6 November 2012)

Brain scaling in mammalian evolution as a consequence of concerted and mosaic changes in numbers of neurons and average neuronal cell size

scientific article

Precisely Synchronized Oscillatory Firing Patterns Require Electroencephalographic Activation

scholarly article from 'The Journal of Neuroscience' published in 1999

Different scaling of white matter volume, cortical connectivity, and gyrification across rodent and primate brains

scientific article published on April 9, 2013

Brains matter, bodies maybe not: the case for examining neuron numbers irrespective of body size

scientific article published on April 1, 2011

How the Cortex Gets Its Folds: An Inside-Out, Connectivity-Driven Model for the Scaling of Mammalian Cortical Folding

scientific article published on February 2, 2012

The elephant brain in numbers

scientific article

Cellular composition characterizing postnatal development and maturation of the mouse brain and spinal cord

scientific article published on 6 October 2012

Neuronal scaling rules for primate brains: the primate advantage

scientific article published on January 2012

Do you know your brain? A survey on public neuroscience literacy at the closing of the decade of the brain

scientific article published in April 2002

Gorilla and orangutan brains conform to the primate cellular scaling rules: implications for human evolution

scientific article (publication date: 2011)

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

scientific article

How to count cells: the advantages and disadvantages of the isotropic fractionator compared with stereology

scientific article

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

scientific article published on 02 September 2013

Age-related neuronal loss in the rat brain starts at the end of adolescence

scientific article

Faster scaling of visual neurons in cortical areas relative to subcortical structures in non-human primate brains

scientific article published on 09 June 2012

Encephalization, neuronal excess, and neuronal index in rodents

scientific article published in October 2007

No relative expansion of the number of prefrontal neurons in primate and human evolution

scientific article published on 08 August 2016

Cellular scaling rules for the brain of afrotherians

scientific article (publication date: 2014)

All brains are made of this: a fundamental building block of brain matter with matching neuronal and glial masses

scientific article published on November 12, 2014

Cellular scaling rules for primate spinal cords

scientific article

Continued Growth of the Central Nervous System without Mandatory Addition of Neurons in the Nile Crocodile (Crocodylus niloticus).

scientific article published on 26 February 2016

Cellular scaling rules for the brain of Artiodactyla include a highly folded cortex with few neurons

scientific article

Decreasing sleep requirement with increasing numbers of neurons as a driver for bigger brains and bodies in mammalian evolution

scientific article published on October 7, 2015

Greater addition of neurons to the olfactory bulb than to the cerebral cortex of eulipotyphlans but not rodents, afrotherians or primates

scientific article (publication date: 2014)

Corticalization of motor control in humans is a consequence of brain scaling in primate evolution

scientific article published on 18 April 2015

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

scientific article published on 12 December 2017

The continuously growing central nervous system of the Nile crocodile (Crocodylus niloticus)

scientific article published on 05 July 2013

Cellular Scaling Rules for the Brains of Marsupials: Not as "Primitive" as Expected

scientific article published on 27 January 2017

List of works by Suzana Herculano-Houzel

Equal numbers of neuronal and nonneuronal cells make the human brain an isometrically scaled-up primate brain

The human brain in numbers: a linearly scaled-up primate brain

Isotropic fractionator: a simple, rapid method for the quantification of total cell and neuron numbers in the brain.

Cellular scaling rules for primate brains

Cellular scaling rules for rodent brains

The glia/neuron ratio: how it varies uniformly across brain structures and species and what that means for brain physiology and evolution

Changing numbers of neuronal and non-neuronal cells underlie postnatal brain growth in the rat.

The remarkable, yet not extraordinary, human brain as a scaled-up primate brain and its associated cost

The search for true numbers of neurons and glial cells in the human brain: A review of 150 years of cell counting

Scaling of Brain Metabolism with a Fixed Energy Budget per Neuron: Implications for Neuronal Activity, Plasticity and Evolution

Birds have primate-like numbers of neurons in the forebrain

Coordinated scaling of cortical and cerebellar numbers of neurons

The basic nonuniformity of the cerebral cortex

Not all brains are made the same: new views on brain scaling in evolution

Connectivity-driven white matter scaling and folding in primate cerebral cortex

Cortical folding scales universally with surface area and thickness, not number of neurons

Cellular scaling rules for the brains of an extended number of primate species

Distribution of neurons in functional areas of the mouse cerebral cortex reveals quantitatively different cortical zones

Precisely synchronized oscillatory firing patterns require electroencephalographic activation

Cellular scaling rules of insectivore brains

Updated neuronal scaling rules for the brains of Glires (rodents/lagomorphs)

Metabolic constraint imposes tradeoff between body size and number of brain neurons in human evolution

Brain scaling in mammalian evolution as a consequence of concerted and mosaic changes in numbers of neurons and average neuronal cell size

Precisely Synchronized Oscillatory Firing Patterns Require Electroencephalographic Activation

Different scaling of white matter volume, cortical connectivity, and gyrification across rodent and primate brains

Brains matter, bodies maybe not: the case for examining neuron numbers irrespective of body size

How the Cortex Gets Its Folds: An Inside-Out, Connectivity-Driven Model for the Scaling of Mammalian Cortical Folding

The elephant brain in numbers

Cellular composition characterizing postnatal development and maturation of the mouse brain and spinal cord

Neuronal scaling rules for primate brains: the primate advantage

Do you know your brain? A survey on public neuroscience literacy at the closing of the decade of the brain

Gorilla and orangutan brains conform to the primate cellular scaling rules: implications for human evolution

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

How to count cells: the advantages and disadvantages of the isotropic fractionator compared with stereology

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

Age-related neuronal loss in the rat brain starts at the end of adolescence

Faster scaling of visual neurons in cortical areas relative to subcortical structures in non-human primate brains

Encephalization, neuronal excess, and neuronal index in rodents

No relative expansion of the number of prefrontal neurons in primate and human evolution

Cellular scaling rules for the brain of afrotherians

All brains are made of this: a fundamental building block of brain matter with matching neuronal and glial masses

Cellular scaling rules for primate spinal cords

Continued Growth of the Central Nervous System without Mandatory Addition of Neurons in the Nile Crocodile (Crocodylus niloticus).

Cellular scaling rules for the brain of Artiodactyla include a highly folded cortex with few neurons

Decreasing sleep requirement with increasing numbers of neurons as a driver for bigger brains and bodies in mammalian evolution

Greater addition of neurons to the olfactory bulb than to the cerebral cortex of eulipotyphlans but not rodents, afrotherians or primates

Corticalization of motor control in humans is a consequence of brain scaling in primate evolution

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

The continuously growing central nervous system of the Nile crocodile (Crocodylus niloticus)

Cellular Scaling Rules for the Brains of Marsupials: Not as "Primitive" as Expected