2003 US Frontiers of Science Symposium

2005 US Frontiers of Science Symposium

Metabolic, Functional and Volumetric Constraints on Brain Architecture

Sam Wang, Princeton University

1. Introduction

2. The human brain

3. A killer whale brain (and a collaborator)A killer whale brain (and a collaborator)

4. Least shrew brain

5. Can variations in gross form be linked to cognitive complexity?

6. Cerebrotypes

7. Grouping brains by cerebrotype

8. Detailed relationships among species

9. Social complexity is a recurring feature in bird evolution

10. Contrasts in cognitive complexity: crows and chickens

11. The complexity of a single neuron

13. Scaling relationships in the mammalian neocortex

15. Scaling relationships in the mammalian neocortex

16. Beta-catenin overexpression induces mouse brains to fold

17. The neocortex

18. Myelination becomes more prevalent in larger brains

19. Axon diameters and functional parameters

20. Axon scaling can predict white matter metabolic scaling

21. Preservation of shortest cross-brain conduction times

22. New probes for structure and function

23. Scanning and sectioning a specimen at the same time

24. Three-dimensional reconstructions

25. Two-photon microscopy

26. Biological imaging with two-photon microscopy

27. Imaging neural activity in the intact cerebellum

28. A high signal-to-noise CA2+ probe composed of a single green fluorescent protein

29. Bergmann Glia

30. Rapid neurotransmitters uncaging in spatially defined patterns

31. Current Summation in a Pyramidal Neuron

32. Two scientists ruminate

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