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We overfocus on brain volume, when we should be calculating the number of neurons and neuron size varies wildly. I can't find the original video, but Suzana He
by sitkack 2y ago
We overfocus on brain volume, when we should be calculating the number of neurons and neuron size varies wildly.
I can't find the original video, but Suzana Herculano-Houzel developed a technique to measure total neuron counts by liquefying the brain and then counting the cell nucleus density / volume.
WSU Master Class: Big Brains, Small Brains with Suzana Herculano-Houzel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDM3TcfGoBY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDM3TcfGoBY
(nice short popsci intro) The woman who turns brains into soup: Suzana Herculano-Houzel
https://youtu.be/d2Uhv0_Ji1k?t=362 https://youtu.be/d2Uhv0_Ji1k?t=362 (talks about racoon and bird brains)
https://news.vanderbilt.edu/2017/09/07/brainiac-with-her-innovative-brain-soup-suzana-herculano-houzel-is-changing-neuroscience-one-species-at-a-time/ https://news.vanderbilt.edu/2017/09/07/brainiac-with-her-inn...
https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&query=Suzana%20Herculano-Houzel%20&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
This paper is really fun, "Brains matter, bodies maybe not: the case for examining
neuron numbers irrespective of body size" https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Brains-matter%2C-bodies-maybe-not%3A-the-case-for-of-Herculano%E2%80%90Houzel/ea34224601c81828afeefc29522d98375233d355 https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Brains-matter%2C-bodie...