It is often said that fear is a universal innate emotion that we humans have inherited from our
mammalian ancestors by virtue of having inherited conserved features of their nervous …

The primary driver of the evolution of the vertebrate nervous system has been the necessity
to move, along with the requirement of controlling the plethora of motor behavioural …

The existence of evolutionarily conserved regions in the vertebrate brain is well established.
The rules and constraints underlying the evolution of neuron types, however, remain poorly …

Variations in size and complexity of the cerebral cortex result from differences in neuron
number and composition, rooted in evolutionary changes in direct and indirect neurogenesis …

The term extrapyramidal disorders is most often used for conditions such as Parkinson's
disease or Huntington's disease, but also refers to a group of extrapyramidal side effects of …

The water-to-land transition in vertebrate evolution offers an unusual opportunity to consider
computational affordances of a new ecology for the brain. All sensory modalities are …

The primate forebrain is a complex structure. Thousands of connections have been
identified between cortical areas, and between cortical and sub-cortical areas. Previous …

Equipped with an early social predisposition immediately post-birth, humans typically form
associations with mothers and other family members through exposure learning, canalized …

As the highest center of sensory processing, initiation, and modulation of behavior, the
pallium has seen prominent changes during the course of vertebrate evolution, culminating …

Animals constantly redirect their gaze away or towards relevant targets and, besides these
goal-oriented responses, stabilizing movements clamp the visual scene avoiding image …