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

    Article • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, September 2015, Royal Society Publishing

    Professor Suzana Herculano-Houzel

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

    Article • Science, July 2015, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Professor Suzana Herculano-Houzel

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

    Article • Frontiers in Neuroanatomy, June 2015, Frontiers

    Professor Suzana Herculano-Houzel

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

    Article • The Journal of Comparative Neurology, May 2015, Wiley

    Professor Suzana Herculano-Houzel

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

    Article • Frontiers in Neuroanatomy, March 2015, Frontiers

    Professor Suzana Herculano-Houzel

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

    Article • Frontiers in Neuroanatomy, March 2015, Frontiers

    Professor Suzana Herculano-Houzel

  7. Structural Analysis of Alterations in Zebrafish Muscle Differentiation Induced by Simvastatin and Their Recovery with Cholesterol

    Article • Journal of Histochemistry & Cytochemistry, March 2015, Journal of Histochemistry & Cytochemistry (The Histochemical Society)

    Professor Suzana Herculano-Houzel, Prof Manoel L Costa

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

    Article • Cell and Tissue Research, March 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Suzana Herculano-Houzel

  9. 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

    Article • Brain Behavior and Evolution, January 2015, Karger Publishers

    Professor Suzana Herculano-Houzel

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

    Article • Frontiers in Neuroanatomy, November 2014, Frontiers

    Professor Suzana Herculano-Houzel

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

    Article • Frontiers in Neuroanatomy, November 2014, Frontiers

    Professor Suzana Herculano-Houzel

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

    Article • Frontiers in Neuroanatomy, August 2014, Frontiers

    Professor Suzana Herculano-Houzel

  13. The elephant brain in numbers

    Article • Frontiers in Neuroanatomy, June 2014, Frontiers

    Professor Suzana Herculano-Houzel

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

    Article • Glia, May 2014, Wiley

    Professor Suzana Herculano-Houzel

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

    Article • Frontiers in Neuroanatomy, April 2014, Frontiers

    Professor Suzana Herculano-Houzel

  16. Cellular scaling rules for the brain of afrotherians

    Article • Frontiers in Neuroanatomy, January 2014, Frontiers

    Professor Suzana Herculano-Houzel

  17. Sleep It Out

    Article • Science, October 2013, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Professor Suzana Herculano-Houzel

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

    Article • The Anatomical Record, September 2013, Wiley

    Professor Suzana Herculano-Houzel, Dr Muhammad A Spocter

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

    Article • The Anatomical Record, July 2013, Wiley

    Professor Suzana Herculano-Houzel

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

    Article • Frontiers in Neuroanatomy, January 2013, Frontiers

    Professor Suzana Herculano-Houzel

  21. Faster Scaling of Auditory Neurons in Cortical Areas Relative to Subcortical Structures in Primate Brains

    Article • Brain Behavior and Evolution, January 2013, Karger Publishers

    Professor Suzana Herculano-Houzel

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

    Article • Frontiers in Neuroanatomy, January 2013, Frontiers

    Professor Suzana Herculano-Houzel

  23. 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

    Article • Frontiers in Neuroanatomy, January 2013, Frontiers

    Professor Suzana Herculano-Houzel

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

    Article • Referate und Beiträge zur Anatomie und Entwickelungsgeschichte, October 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Suzana Herculano-Houzel

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

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, October 2012, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Professor Suzana Herculano-Houzel

  26. What Determines Motor Neuron Number? Slow Scaling of Facial Motor Neuron Numbers With Body Mass in Marsupials and Primates

    Article • The Anatomical Record, July 2012, Wiley

    Professor Suzana Herculano-Houzel

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

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, June 2012, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Professor Suzana Herculano-Houzel

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

    Article • Referate und Beiträge zur Anatomie und Entwickelungsgeschichte, June 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Suzana Herculano-Houzel

  29. Brain Evolution

    Article • January 2012, Elsevier

    Professor Suzana Herculano-Houzel

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

    Article • Frontiers in Neuroanatomy, January 2012, Frontiers

    Professor Suzana Herculano-Houzel

  31. Neuronal scaling rules for primate brains

    Article • January 2012, Elsevier

    Professor Suzana Herculano-Houzel

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

    Article • Frontiers in Neuroanatomy, January 2012, Frontiers

    Professor Suzana Herculano-Houzel

  33. Contributors

    Article • January 2012, Elsevier

    Professor Suzana Herculano-Houzel

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

    Article • Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, April 2011, Wiley

    Professor Suzana Herculano-Houzel

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

    Article • PLoS ONE, March 2011, PLOS

    Professor Suzana Herculano-Houzel

  36. Gorilla and Orangutan Brains Conform to the Primate Cellular Scaling Rules: Implications for Human Evolution

    Article • Brain Behavior and Evolution, January 2011, Karger Publishers

    Professor Suzana Herculano-Houzel

  37. Not All Brains Are Made the Same: New Views on Brain Scaling in Evolution

    Article • Brain Behavior and Evolution, January 2011, Karger Publishers

    Professor Suzana Herculano-Houzel

  38. Updated Neuronal Scaling Rules for the Brains of Glires (Rodents/Lagomorphs)

    Article • Brain Behavior and Evolution, January 2011, Karger Publishers

    Professor Suzana Herculano-Houzel

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

    Article • January 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Suzana Herculano-Houzel

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

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, October 2010, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Professor Suzana Herculano-Houzel

  41. Cellular Scaling Rules for Primate Spinal Cords

    Article • Brain Behavior and Evolution, January 2010, Karger Publishers

    Professor Suzana Herculano-Houzel

  42. Cellular Scaling Rules for the Brains of an Extended Number of Primate Species

    Article • Brain Behavior and Evolution, January 2010, Karger Publishers

    Professor Suzana Herculano-Houzel

  43. Coordinated scaling of cortical and cerebellar numbers of neurons

    Article • Frontiers in Neuroanatomy, January 2010, Frontiers

    Professor Suzana Herculano-Houzel

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

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, August 2009, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Professor Suzana Herculano-Houzel

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

    Article • The Journal of Comparative Neurology, April 2009, Wiley

    Professor Suzana Herculano-Houzel

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

    Article • Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, January 2009, Frontiers

    Professor Suzana Herculano-Houzel

  47. Brain Development: The Generation of Large Brains

    Article • January 2009, Elsevier

    Professor Suzana Herculano-Houzel

  48. The basic nonuniformity of the cerebral cortex

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, August 2008, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Professor Suzana Herculano-Houzel

  49. Cellular scaling rules for primate brains

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, February 2007, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Professor Suzana Herculano-Houzel

  50. Encephalization, Neuronal Excess, and Neuronal Index in Rodents

    Article • The Anatomical Record, January 2007, Wiley

    Professor Suzana Herculano-Houzel

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

    Article • January 2007, Elsevier

    Professor Suzana Herculano-Houzel

  52. Cellular scaling rules for rodent brains

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, August 2006, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Professor Suzana Herculano-Houzel

  53. Isotropic Fractionator: A Simple, Rapid Method for the Quantification of Total Cell and Neuron Numbers in the Brain

    Article • Journal of Neuroscience, March 2005, Society for Neuroscience

    Professor Suzana Herculano-Houzel

  54. What does the public want to know about the brain?

    Article • Nature Neuroscience, April 2003, Nature

    Professor Suzana Herculano-Houzel

  55. Psychiatric disorders: The chicken or the egg?

    Article • Nature Reviews Neuroscience, January 2003, Nature

    Professor Suzana Herculano-Houzel

  56. Article • Brazilian Journal of Medical and Biological Research, December 2002, FapUNIFESP (SciELO)

    Professor Suzana Herculano-Houzel

  57. Do You Know Your Brain? A Survey on Public Neuroscience Literacy at the Closing of the Decade of the Brain

    Article • The Neuroscientist, April 2002, SAGE Publications

    Professor Suzana Herculano-Houzel

  58. Yves Delage: Neuronal Assemblies, Synchronous Oscillations, and Hebbian Learning in 1919

    Article • The Neuroscientist, September 1999, SAGE Publications

    Professor Suzana Herculano-Houzel

  59. Distribution of Mayaro virus RNA in polysomes during heat shock

    Article • Virus Research, May 1997, Elsevier

    Professor Suzana Herculano-Houzel