Quantitative microscopic anatomy, illustrated by its potential role in furthering understanding of the processes of structuring the developing human cerebral cortex

In this study, we searched for patterns in selected, quantitative microscopic features of the developing postnatal human cortex for 35 cytoarchitectural areas at eight age points from birth to 72 months. These data come from the largest extant survey of the microscopic features of the developing postnatal human cerebral cortex (JL Conel, 1939-67). In contrast to Jacobson's proposal that cortical surface area increases in proportion to brain...