Standout Papers

Preface: Cerebral Cortex Has Come of Age 1972 2026 1990 2008 2.5k
  1. Preface: Cerebral Cortex Has Come of Age (1991)
    Patricia S. Goldman‐Rakic, Pasko Rakić Cerebral Cortex
  2. Specification of Cerebral Cortical Areas (1988)
    Pasko Rakić Science
  3. Mode of cell migration to the superficial layers of fetal monkey neocortex (1972)
    Pasko Rakić The Journal of Comparative Neurology
  4. Decreased apoptosis in the brain and premature lethality in CPP32-deficient mice (1996)
    Keisuke Kuida, Timothy S. Zheng et al. Nature
  5. Reduced Apoptosis and Cytochrome c–Mediated Caspase Activation in Mice Lacking Caspase 9 (1998)
    Keisuke Kuida, Tarik F. Haydar et al. Cell
  6. Neuron‐glia relationship during granule cell migration in developing cerebellar cortex. A Golgi and electonmicroscopic study in Macacus rhesus (1971)
    Pasko Rakić The Journal of Comparative Neurology
  7. Absence of excitotoxicity-induced apoptosis in the hippocampus of mice lacking the Jnk3 gene (1997)
    Derek Yang, Chia‐Yi Kuan et al. Nature
  8. Evolution of the neocortex: a perspective from developmental biology (2009)
    Pasko Rakić Nature reviews. Neuroscience
  9. Neuronal migration, with special reference to developing human brain: a review (1973)
    Richard L. Sidman, Pasko Rakić Brain Research
  10. Extraordinary neoteny of synaptic spines in the human prefrontal cortex (2011)
    Zdravko Petanjek, Miloš Judáš et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  11. Neurons in Rhesus Monkey Visual Cortex: Systematic Relation between Time of Origin and Eventual Disposition (1974)
    Pasko Rakić Science
  12. Concurrent Overproduction of Synapses in Diverse Regions of the Primate Cerebral Cortex (1986)
    Pasko Rakić, Jean‐Pierre Bourgeois et al. Science
  13. Modulation of Neuronal Migration by NMDA Receptors (1993)
    Hitoshi Komuro, Pasko Rakić Science
  14. A small step for the cell, a giant leap for mankind: a hypothesis of neocortical expansion during evolution (1995)
    Pasko Rakić Trends in Neurosciences
  15. The Jnk1 and Jnk2 Protein Kinases Are Required for Regional Specific Apoptosis during Early Brain Development (1999)
    Chia‐Yi Kuan, Derek Yang et al. Neuron
  16. Developmental history of the transient subplate zone in the visual and somatosensory cortex of the macaque monkey and human brain (1990)
    Ivica Kostović, Pasko Rakić The Journal of Comparative Neurology
  17. Development of the human cerebral cortex: Boulder Committee revisited (2008)
    Irina Bystron, Colin Blakemore et al. Nature reviews. Neuroscience
  18. Microarray analysis of microRNA expression in the developing mammalian brain (2004)
    Eric A. Miska, Ezequiel Alvarez-Saavedra et al. Genome biology
  19. Prenatal development of the visual system in rhesus monkey (1977)
    Pasko Rakić et al. Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences
  20. Continuation of neurogenesis in the hippocampus of the adult macaque monkey (1999)
    David R. Kornack, Pasko Rakić Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  21. Immunoperoxidase localization of glial fibrillary acidic protein in radial glial cells and astrocytes of the developing rhesus monkey brain (1980)
    Pat Levitt, Pasko Rakić The Journal of Comparative Neurology
  22. Identification of a multipotent astrocytic stem cell in the immature and adult mouse brain (2000)
    Eric D. Laywell, Pasko Rakić et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  23. Principles of neural cell migration (1990)
    Pasko Rakić Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences
  24. A golgi study of radial glial cells in developing monkey telencephalon: Morphogenesis and transformation into astrocytes (1979)
    Donald E. Schmechel, Pasko Rakić Anatomy and Embryology
  25. Mechanisms of Cortical Development: A View From Mutations in Mice (1978)
    Verne S. Caviness, Pasko Rakić Annual Review of Neuroscience
  26. Prenatal genesis of connections subserving ocular dominance in the rhesus monkey (1976)
    Pasko Rakić Nature
  27. Synaptogenesis in the Prefrontal Cortex of Rhesus Monkeys (1994)
    Jean‐Pierre Bourgeois, Patricia S. Goldman‐Rakic et al. Cerebral Cortex
  28. Origin of GABAergic neurons in the human neocortex (2002)
    Krešimir Letinić, Roberto Zoncu et al. Nature
  29. Development of the corpus callosum and cavum septi in man (1968)
    Pasko Rakić, Paul I. Yakovlev The Journal of Comparative Neurology
  30. Guidance of neurons migrating to the fetal monkey neocortex (1971)
    Pasko Rakić Brain Research
  31. Development of prefrontal cortex (2021)
    Sharon M. Kolk, Pasko Rakić Neuropsychopharmacology

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