Columbia Zuckerman Institute

The Zuckerman Institute brings together an extraordinary group of researchers from across Columbia University, in a state-of-the-art facility, to transform our understanding of the brain and mind.

Franck Polleux

Professor of neuroscience and a member of the Mortimer B. Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute

James P. Noonan

Albert E. Kent Professor of Genetics and Professor of Neuroscience

Columbia Zuckerman Institute, Yale University

February 16, 2023

Developmental mechanisms underlying the evolution of human cortical circuits

In Nature Reviews Neuroscience, NOMIS researcher Franck Polleux and Pierre Vanderhaeghen discuss the genomic modifications and changes in neurodevelopmental mechanisms that underpin the human brain’s unique complexity and function. Abstract […]

October 1, 2024

If you please, draw me a neuron — linking evolutionary tinkering with human neuron evolution

Abstract: Animal speciation often involves novel behavioral features that rely on nervous system evolution. Human-specific brain features have been proposed to underlie specialized cognitive functions and to be linked, at least […]

If you please, draw me a neuron — linking evolutionary tinkering with human neuron evolution

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Developmental mechanisms underlying the evolution of human cortical circuits

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