• Gyrification is the process of forming the characteristic folds of the cerebral cortex. The peak of such a fold is called a gyrus (pl. gyri), and its trough...
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    exist in the confines of a smaller cranium. The human brain undergoes gyrification during fetal and neonatal development. In embryonic development, all...
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    assistance and to perform other functions once thought too advanced. Gyrification CEP85L - gene associated with posterior predominant lissencephaly in...
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    development and continue to mature after birth through the process of gyrification. In the human brain, the majority of the cerebral cortex is not visible...
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    entirely clear, and there are several competing hypotheses that explain gyrification, such as axonal tension, cortical buckling or differences in cellular...
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    directed parasagittally (contrary to the transverse gyrification). Since the parasagittal gyrification is observed in non-primate species, the limbic lobe...
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  • connections between brain cells. Long-term meditators have larger amounts of gyrification ("folding" of the cortex, which may allow the brain to process information...
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  • known as radial glial cells, and FGF2 has been used to induce artificial gyrification of the mouse brain. Another FGF family member, FGF8, regulates the size...
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    temporal sulcus The variation in the number of fissures in the brain (gyrification) between species is related to the size of the animal and the size of...
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    hemispheres. The complex convolutions of the cerebral surface (see gyrus, gyrification) are also found only in higher mammals. Although some large mammals (such...
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    not well-understood, but gyrification has been linked to intelligence and neurological disorders, and a number of gyrification theories have been proposed...
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  • of Sulci in 258 BC Sulcalization, a term in phonetics and phonology Gyrification This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Sulcus...
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    cortex and its ability to form surface convolutions known as gyri (see gyrification). Radial glial cells show high levels of calcium transient activity,...
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  • evolution of the cerebral cortex and different degrees of brain folding (gyrification), which increases the surface area (and volume) of the cortex, are positively...
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    cerebrum. In the brain, a sulcus is a groove formed in the stage of gyrification by the folding of the cortex. There are many sulci and gyri formed. A...
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  • parieto-frontal neuronal networks, neuronal efficiency, and cortical gyrification. Brain structural integrity seems to be more important as a biological...
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  • encephalization quotient, grey matter density and white matter connectivity, gyrification, cortical thickness, or the amount of cerebrospinal fluid. These variables...
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  • Schizophrenia. Possibly preventing them from developing schizophrenia. Increased gyrification in gyri by the cerebellum may lead to dysconnectivity in the brain, and...
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    mechanism regulating cortical surface area growth and, potentially, gyrification. In this way, Notch signaling controls NPC self-renewal as well as cell...
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    lateralization, loss of laterality for language comprehension, a reduction in gyrification, brain torsion etc. Dyslexia As studied earlier, language is usually...
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    Tallinen, Tuoma; Chung, Jun Young; Biggins, John S.; Mahadevan, L. (2014). "Gyrification from constrained cortical expansion". Proceedings of the National Academy...
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  • hypothesis Neural stem cell Stem cell Neurogenesis Cellular differentiation Gyrification notes, Dr. K. Brodmann; translated with editorial; Garey, an introduction...
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  • children showed a significant association between autistic traits and gyrification patterns (winding patterns) of the brain on structural magnetic resonance...
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    intraparietal sulcus. In the area overlapping the primary visual cortex gyrification in the left hemisphere, Neanderthal admixture is positively correlated...
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    similarities to humans in terms of brain structure; ferrets' brains have gyrification in high amounts similar to humans, different from the relatively smooth...
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    Mahdi (2018). "Improvement of spatial learning and memory, cortical gyrification patterns and brain oxidative stress markers in diabetic rats treated...
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  • Stem cell Neurogenesis Cellular differentiation Cortical patterning Gyrification Rakic P (July 1988). "Specification of cerebral cortical areas". Science...
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    of schizophrenic patients. It had been shown previously that abnormal gyrification, asymmetry, complexity, and variability occur in patients with schizophrenia...
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  • than a human brain, but it presented a higher density of convolutions [gyrification]—a feature often used to distinguish human intelligence. Moreover, the...
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    the visual cortex, temporal lobe, and parietal cortex, and increased gyrification (folds of the brain). There have been many questions as to why these...
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