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ArticleBrain structure & function2024

Evolutionary scaling and cognitive correlates of primate frontal cortex microstructure.

Cheryl D Stimpson, Jeroen B Smaers, Mary Ann Raghanti, Kimberley A Phillips, Bob Jacobs, William D Hopkins, Patrick R Hof, Chet C Sherwood

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Article in Brain structure & function, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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8 authors at 7 institutions in 1 country.

Cheryl D StimpsonDepartment of Anthropology and Center for the Advanced Study of Human Paleobiology, The George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA.
Jeroen B SmaersDepartment of Anthropology, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, USA.
Mary Ann RaghantiDepartment of Anthropology and School of Biomedical Sciences, Kent State University, Kent, OH, USA.
Kimberley A PhillipsDepartment of Psychology, Trinity University, San Antonio, TX, USA.
Bob JacobsDepartment of Psychology, Laboratory of Quantitative Neuromorphology, Colorado College, Colorado Springs, CO, USA.
William D HopkinsDepartment of Comparative Medicine, Michale E Keeling Center for Comparative Medicine and Research, M D Anderson Cancer Center, Bastrop, TX, USA.
Patrick R HofNash Family Department of Neuroscience, Center for Discovery and Innovation, and Friedman Brain Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA.
Chet C SherwoodDepartment of Anthropology and Center for the Advanced Study of Human Paleobiology, The George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA. sherwood@gwu.edu.
George Washington University · USCenter for Discovery · USColorado College · USKent State University · USStony Brook University · USThe University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center · USTrinity University · US

Funding

Alzheimer's Disease Pathology in a Primate ModelR01AG067419 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF TX MD ANDERSON CAN CTR · PI HOPKINS, WILLIAM D · 2021 to 2025
$3.8M
Comparative Epigenomics of Primate BrainsR01HG011641 · NHGRI · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SANTA BARBARA · PI KONOPKA, GENEVIEVE, SHERWOOD, CHESTER · 2021 to 2024
$2.4M
A National Chimpanzee Brain ResourceR24NS092988 · NINDS · GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY · PI SHERWOOD, CHESTER · 2015 to 2018
$969k
James S. McDonnell Foundation 220020293National Science Foundation SMA-1542848, EF-2021785, DRL-2219759NHGRI NIH HHS R01 HG011641NIA NIH HHS R01 AG067419NIH HHS AG067419, HG011641, NS092988NINDS NIH HHS R24 NS092988
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Investigating evolutionary changes in frontal cortex microstructure is crucial to understanding how modifications of neuron and axon distributions contribute to phylogenetic variation in cognition. In the present study, we characterized microstructural components of dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, orbitofrontal cortex, and primary motor cortex from 14 primate species using measurements of neuropil fraction and immunohistochemical markers for fast-spiking inhibitory interneurons, large pyramidal projection neuron subtypes, serotonergic innervation, and dopaminergic innervation. Results revealed that the rate of evolutionary change was similar across these microstructural variables, except for neuropil fraction, which evolves more slowly and displays the strongest correlation with brain size. We also found that neuropil fraction in orbitofrontal cortex layers V-VI was associated with cross-species variation in performance on experimental tasks that measure self-control. These findings provide insight into the evolutionary reorganization of the primate frontal cortex in relation to brain size scaling and its association with cognitive processes.

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Biological EvolutionCognitionFrontal LobePrimatesAnimalsMaleMotor CortexNeuropilPrefrontal CortexSpecies SpecificityBrain evolutionDopamineInterneuronNeuropilParvalbuminSerotonin

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