Suzana Herculano-Houzel

comparative neuroanatomy, cellular composition of brains, brain morphology, brain evolution, metabolic cost of body and brain, sleep requirement across species, feeding time, and really interested in how all of these are tied together. Writes about neuroscience and science in general for the public; recently published The Human Advantage: A New Understanding of How Our Brain Became Remarkable (MIT Press, 2016).

DiNuzzo M, Dienel GA, Behar KL, Petroff OAC, Benveniste H, Hyder F, Giove F, Michaeli S, Mangia S, Herculano-Houzel S, Rothman DL (2023). Neurovascular coupling is optimized to compensate for the increase in proton production from nonoxidative glycolysis and glycogenolysis during brain activation and maintain homeostasis of pH, pCO2, and pO2. J Neurochem, 10.1111/jnc.15839 York AR, Sherwood CC, Manger PR, Kaas JH, Mota B, Herculano-Houzel S (2024) Folding of the cerebellar cortex is clade-specific in form, but universal in degree. J Comp Neurol, in press. Herculano-Houzel S (2023) Theropod dinosaurs had primate-like numbers of telencephalic neurons. J Comp Neurol 531, 962-974.