Normal and Abnormal Development of the Cortex

✍ Scribed by V. S. Caviness Jr., T. Takahashi (auth.), A. M. Galaburda M.D., Y. Christen Ph.D. (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 1997
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 207
• Series: Research and Perspectives in Neurosciences
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book, the seventh in the series "Research and Perspectives in Neuroscience", contains the procedings of a meeting that was held in Paris on October14, 1996. The conference consisted of invited papers and poster presentations. The invited papers, included in this volume, were on cell proliferation prior to neuronal migration, on cellular and molecular factors characteristic of neuronal migration, and on postmigrational neuronal and axonal plasticity. There was a section devoted to disorders of neuronal migration and plasticity and the genetics of some developmental disorders. Great strides have been made in this relatively young branch of modern neuroscience.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages I-XIV
Cell Proliferation in Cortical Development....Pages 1-24
The Nature and Nurture of Cortical Development....Pages 25-56
Mechanisms of Neuronal Migration....Pages 57-65
Finding a Role for Cajal-Retzius Cells in Cerebral Cortex Development....Pages 67-80
Intra- and Extracellular Control of Neuronal Migration: Relevance to Cortical Malformations....Pages 81-98
Exuberant Growth, Specificity, and Selection in the Differentiation of Cortical axons....Pages 99-120
What about Isocortex can be Rewired and Reconfigured?....Pages 121-133
Toxicity of Plasticity. Lessons from a model of developmental learning disorder....Pages 135-144
New Genetic Insights into Cerebral Cortical Development....Pages 145-163
Genetic and Environmental Determinants of Neocortical Development: Clinical Applications....Pages 165-177
Regulators of Neuronal Survival (BcI-2, Bax, c-Jun) in Prenatal and Postnatal Human Frontal and Temporal Lobes in Normal and Down Syndrome Brain....Pages 179-195
Back Matter....Pages 197-199

✦ Subjects

Neurosciences