Neuroanatomy of the Developing Central Nervous System

  • The cells of the developing central nervous system
    • Neural stem cells of the embryo
  • Tissues of the developing central nervous system
    • Spinal cord and medulla
    • Cerebellum
    • Cerebral organization

Developmental Mechanisms Regulating Brain Growth

  • Neural stem cell behaviors during division
    • Symmetry of stem cell division
  • Neurogenesis: Building from the bottom up (or from the inside out)
  • Glia as scaffold for the layering of the cerebellum and neocortex
    • Laminar identity in the neocortex
  • Signaling mechanisms regulating development of the neocortex
    • To be or not to be ... A stem, a progenitor, or a neuron?
    • Symmetry may age us

Development of the Human Brain

  • Fetal neuronal growth rate continues after birth
  • Hills raise the horizon for learning I
    • Identifying the genes that make the human brain unique
    • The role of noncoding RNAs: it’s not what you make, but how you make it
    • I think, therefore I am (because of Retinoic Acid and a lack of Cerebellin repression)
  • Changes in transcript quantity
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