List of works - Suzana Herculano-Houzel

A community-based transcriptomics classification and nomenclature of neocortical cell types

scientific article published on 24 August 2020

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

scientific article

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

scientific article

Alterations in zebrafish development induced by simvastatin: Comprehensive morphological and physiological study, focusing on muscle.

scientific article

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

scientific article published in July 2015

Birds do have a brain cortex-and think

scientific article published on 01 September 2020

Birds have primate-like numbers of neurons in the forebrain

scientific article

Brain Development: The Generation of Large Brains

article

Brain Evolution

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

scientific article

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

scientific article published on April 1, 2011

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

scientific article published on 27 January 2017

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

scientific article published on 6 October 2012

Cellular scaling rules for primate brains

scientific article

Cellular scaling rules for primate spinal cords

scientific article

Cellular scaling rules for rodent brains

scholarly article

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

scientific article

Cellular scaling rules for the brain of afrotherians

scientific article (publication date: 2014)

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

scientific article

Cellular scaling rules of insectivore brains

scientific article (publication date: 2009)

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

scholarly article

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

scientific article (publication date: 2 November 2010)

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

Coordinated scaling of cortical and cerebellar numbers of neurons ⬇️

scientific article published in 2010

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

scientific article published on 26 March 2015

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

scientific article published on 26 March 2015

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

scientific article published on 18 April 2015

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

scientific article

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

scientific article published on April 9, 2013

Distribution of Mayaro virus RNA in polysomes during heat shock

scientific article published on May 1997

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

scientific article published on 21 October 2013

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

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

Encephalization, neuronal excess, and neuronal index in rodents

scientific article published in October 2007

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

scientific article

Faster scaling of auditory neurons in cortical areas relative to subcortical structures in primate brains

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

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

scientific article (publication date: 2011)

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)

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

How to Build a Bigger Brain: Cellular Scaling Rules for Rodent Brains

article

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

scientific article

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

scientific article

Life history changes accompany increased numbers of cortical neurons: A new framework for understanding human brain evolution

scientific article published on 26 August 2019

Longevity and sexual maturity vary across species with number of cortical neurons, and humans are no exception

scientific article published on 20 November 2018

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

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

scientific article (publication date: 6 November 2012)

Microchiropterans have a diminutive cerebral cortex, not an enlarged cerebellum, compared to megachiropterans and other mammals

scientific article published on 12 July 2020

Neuronal scaling rules for primate brains: the primate advantage

scientific article published on January 2012

Neuroscience. Sleep it out.

scientific article

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

scientific article published on 08 August 2016

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

scientific article published on 17 June 2011

Potential Adult Neurogenesis in the Telencephalon and Cerebellar Cortex of the Nile Crocodile Revealed with Doublecortin Immunohistochemistry

scientific article published on 2 December 2017

Precisely Synchronized Oscillatory Firing Patterns Require Electroencephalographic Activation ⬇️

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

Precisely synchronized oscillatory firing patterns require electroencephalographic activation

scientific article published in May 1999

Publisher Correction: A community-based transcriptomics classification and nomenclature of neocortical cell types

scientific article published on 04 December 2020

Response to Comments on "Cortical folding scales universally with surface area and thickness, not number of neurons".

scientific article

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

Similar microglial cell densities across brain structures and mammalian species: Implications for brain tissue function

scientific article published on 02 April 2020

Structural analysis of alterations in zebrafish muscle differentiation induced by simvastatin and their recovery with cholesterol.

scientific article

Suzana Herculano-Houzel: What is so special about the human brain?

TEDGlobal 2013

The Continuously Growing Central Nervous System of the Nile Crocodile (Crocodylus niloticus)

The Evolution of Human Capabilities and Abilities

scientific article published on 01 March 2018

The Human Advantage

scientific article

The Isotropic Fractionator: A Fast, Reliable Method to Determine Numbers of Cells in the Brain or Other Tissues

The basic nonuniformity of the cerebral cortex

scholarly article

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

scientific article published on 05 July 2013

The elephant brain in numbers

scientific 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

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

scientific article published in 2009

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

The relationship between the number of neurons and behavioral performance in Swiss mice

scientific article published on 26 June 2020

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

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

scientific article (publication date: 2011)

What determines motor neuron number? Slow scaling of facial motor neuron numbers with body mass in marsupials and primates

scientific article published on 31 July 2012

What does the public want to know about the brain?

scientific article published in April 2003

What the developing cerebral cortex tells about the adult cortex (and vice versa).

scientific article published in December 2002

When larger brains do not have more neurons: increased numbers of cells are compensated by decreased average cell size across mouse individuals

scientific article published on June 2015

White matter volume and white/gray matter ratio in mammalian species as a consequence of the universal scaling of cortical folding

scientific article published on 08 July 2019

List of works by Suzana Herculano-Houzel

A community-based transcriptomics classification and nomenclature of neocortical cell types

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

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

Alterations in zebrafish development induced by simvastatin: Comprehensive morphological and physiological study, focusing on muscle.

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

Birds do have a brain cortex-and think

Birds have primate-like numbers of neurons in the forebrain

Brain Development: The Generation of Large Brains

Brain Evolution

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

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

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

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

Cellular scaling rules for primate brains

Cellular scaling rules for primate spinal cords

Cellular scaling rules for rodent brains

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

Cellular scaling rules for the brain of afrotherians

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

Cellular scaling rules of insectivore brains

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

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

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

Coordinated scaling of cortical and cerebellar numbers of neurons ⬇️

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

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

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

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

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

Distribution of Mayaro virus RNA in polysomes during heat shock

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

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

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

Encephalization, neuronal excess, and neuronal index in rodents

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

Faster scaling of auditory neurons in cortical areas relative to subcortical structures in primate brains

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

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

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

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

How to Build a Bigger Brain: Cellular Scaling Rules for Rodent Brains

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

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

Life history changes accompany increased numbers of cortical neurons: A new framework for understanding human brain evolution

Longevity and sexual maturity vary across species with number of cortical neurons, and humans are no exception

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

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

Microchiropterans have a diminutive cerebral cortex, not an enlarged cerebellum, compared to megachiropterans and other mammals

Neuronal scaling rules for primate brains: the primate advantage

Neuroscience. Sleep it out.

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

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

Potential Adult Neurogenesis in the Telencephalon and Cerebellar Cortex of the Nile Crocodile Revealed with Doublecortin Immunohistochemistry

Precisely Synchronized Oscillatory Firing Patterns Require Electroencephalographic Activation ⬇️

Precisely synchronized oscillatory firing patterns require electroencephalographic activation

Publisher Correction: A community-based transcriptomics classification and nomenclature of neocortical cell types

Response to Comments on "Cortical folding scales universally with surface area and thickness, not number of neurons".

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

Similar microglial cell densities across brain structures and mammalian species: Implications for brain tissue function

Structural analysis of alterations in zebrafish muscle differentiation induced by simvastatin and their recovery with cholesterol.

Suzana Herculano-Houzel: What is so special about the human brain?

The Continuously Growing Central Nervous System of the Nile Crocodile (Crocodylus niloticus)

The Evolution of Human Capabilities and Abilities

The Human Advantage

The Isotropic Fractionator: A Fast, Reliable Method to Determine Numbers of Cells in the Brain or Other Tissues

The basic nonuniformity of the cerebral cortex

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

The elephant brain in numbers

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

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

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

The relationship between the number of neurons and behavioral performance in Swiss mice

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

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

What determines motor neuron number? Slow scaling of facial motor neuron numbers with body mass in marsupials and primates

What does the public want to know about the brain?

What the developing cerebral cortex tells about the adult cortex (and vice versa).

When larger brains do not have more neurons: increased numbers of cells are compensated by decreased average cell size across mouse individuals