Normal and Abnormal Development of the Cortex

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XIV

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2. Cell Proliferation in Cortical Development

   • V. S. Caviness Jr., T. Takahashi, R. S. Nowakowski

   Pages 1-24

3. The Nature and Nurture of Cortical Development

   • H. Kennedy, C. Dehay

   Pages 25-56

4. Mechanisms of Neuronal Migration

   • C. Zheng, E. Ross, J. Alder, M. Hofer, J. Millonig, K. Millen et al.

   Pages 57-65

5. Finding a Role for Cajal-Retzius Cells in Cerebral Cortex Development

   • C. Sotelo, E. Soriano

   Pages 67-80

6. Intra- and Extracellular Control of Neuronal Migration: Relevance to Cortical Malformations

   • P. Rakic

   Pages 81-98

7. Exuberant Growth, Specificity, and Selection in the Differentiation of Cortical axons

   • G. M. Innocenti, L. Tettoni

   Pages 99-120

8. What about Isocortex can be Rewired and Reconfigured?

   • J. K. Niederer, M. A. Kingsbury, B. L. Finlay

   Pages 121-133

9. Toxicity of Plasticity. Lessons from a model of developmental learning disorder

   • A. M. Galaburda

   Pages 135-144

10. New Genetic Insights into Cerebral Cortical Development

    • J. G. Gleeson, C. A. Walsh

    Pages 145-163

11. Genetic and Environmental Determinants of Neocortical Development: Clinical Applications

    • P. Evrard, S. Marret, P. Gressens

    Pages 165-177

12. Regulators of Neuronal Survival (BcI-2, Bax, c-Jun) in Prenatal and Postnatal Human Frontal and Temporal Lobes in Normal and Down Syndrome Brain

    • K. E. Wisniewski, E. Kida, I. Kuchna, T. Wierzba-Bobrowicz, M. Dambska

    Pages 179-195

13. Back Matter

    Pages 197-199

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This book, the seventh in the series 'Research and Perspectives in Neuroscience', contains the procedings of a meeting that was held in Paris on October14, 1996. The conference consisted of invited papers and poster presentations. The invited papers, included in this volume, were on cell proliferation prior to neuronal migration, on cellular and molecular factors characteristic of neuronal migration, and on postmigrational neuronal and axonal plasticity. There was a section devoted to disorders of neuronal migration and plasticity and the genetics of some developmental disorders. Great strides have been made in this relatively young branch of modern neuroscience.

• Cortical development
• brain
• clinical application
• cortex
• cortical axons
• cortical malformations
• neuronal migration
• neuroscience

• Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, East Campus, Boston, USA

  A. M. Galaburda

• Fondation IPSEN, Paris Cédex 16, France

  Y. Christen

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