Development of prefrontal cortex

SM Kolk, P Rakic - Neuropsychopharmacology, 2022 - nature.com
During evolution, the cerebral cortex advances by increasing in surface and the introduction
of new cytoarchitectonic areas among which the prefrontal cortex (PFC) is considered to be …

Brain organoids: advances, applications and challenges

X Qian, H Song, G Ming - Development, 2019 - journals.biologists.com
Brain organoids are self-assembled three-dimensional aggregates generated from
pluripotent stem cells with cell types and cytoarchitectures that resemble the embryonic …

Sliced human cortical organoids for modeling distinct cortical layer formation

X Qian, Y Su, CD Adam, AU Deutschmann, SR Pather… - Cell stem cell, 2020 - cell.com
Human brain organoids provide unique platforms for modeling development and diseases
by recapitulating the architecture of the embryonic brain. However, current organoid …

A single-cell RNA-seq survey of the developmental landscape of the human prefrontal cortex

S Zhong, S Zhang, X Fan, Q Wu, L Yan, J Dong… - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
The mammalian prefrontal cortex comprises a set of highly specialized brain areas
containing billions of cells and serves as the centre of the highest-order cognitive functions …

New insights into the development of the human cerebral cortex

Z Molnár, GJ Clowry, N Šestan, A Alzu'bi… - Journal of …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The cerebral cortex constitutes more than half the volume of the human brain and is
presumed to be responsible for the neuronal computations underlying complex phenomena …

The cellular and molecular landscapes of the developing human central nervous system

JC Silbereis, S Pochareddy, Y Zhu, M Li, N Sestan - Neuron, 2016 - cell.com
The human CNS follows a pattern of development typical of all mammals, but certain
neurodevelopmental features are highly derived. Building the human CNS requires the …

A single-cell transcriptomic atlas of human neocortical development during mid-gestation

D Polioudakis, L de la Torre-Ubieta, J Langerman… - Neuron, 2019 - cell.com
We performed RNA sequencing on 40,000 cells to create a high-resolution single-cell gene
expression atlas of developing human cortex, providing the first single-cell characterization …

Exploring early human brain development with structural and physiological neuroimaging

L Vasung, EA Turk, SL Ferradal, J Sutin, JN Stout… - Neuroimage, 2019 - Elsevier
Early brain development, from the embryonic period to infancy, is characterized by rapid
structural and functional changes. These changes can be studied using structural and …

Dendritic and axonal architecture of individual pyramidal neurons across layers of adult human neocortex

H Mohan, MB Verhoog, KK Doreswamy, G Eyal… - Cerebral …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
The size and shape of dendrites and axons are strong determinants of neuronal information
processing. Our knowledge on neuronal structure and function is primarily based on brains …

Direct pericyte-to-neuron reprogramming via unfolding of a neural stem cell-like program

M Karow, JG Camp, S Falk, T Gerber, A Pataskar… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Ectopic expression of defined transcription factors can force direct cell-fate conversion from
one lineage to another in the absence of cell division. Several transcription factor cocktails …