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Pierre Vanderhaeghen (Center for Brain & Disease Research, Leuven) – Temporal mechanisms linking the development and evolution of the human brain
Description The human brain, in particular the cerebral cortex, has undergone rapid expansion and increased complexity during recent evolution.One striking feature of human corticogenesis is that it is highly protracted in time, from prenatal stages of neurogenesis (taking months, instead of days in the mouse), to postnatal stages of neuronal maturation and circuit formation (taking…