All Stories

  1. Comparative morphology of gigantopyramidal neurons in primary motor cortex across mammals

    Article • The Journal of Comparative Neurology, November 2017, Wiley

    Professor Patrick R. Hof, bob jacobs, Dr Muhammad A Spocter

  2. Organization of the sleep-related neural systems in the brain of the harbour porpoise (Phocoena phocoena )

    Article • The Journal of Comparative Neurology, February 2016, Wiley

    Dr Muhammad A Spocter

  3. Organization of the sleep-related neural systems in the brain of the river hippopotamus (Hippopotamus amphibius): A most unusual cetartiodactyl species

    Article • The Journal of Comparative Neurology, February 2016, Wiley

    Dr Muhammad A Spocter

  4. Organization of the sleep-related neural systems in the brain of the minke whale (Balaenoptera acutorostrata)

    Article • The Journal of Comparative Neurology, November 2015, Wiley

    Dr Muhammad A Spocter

  5. Orexinergic bouton density is lower in the cerebral cortex of cetaceans compared to artiodactyls

    Article • Journal of Chemical Neuroanatomy, October 2015, Elsevier

    Dr Muhammad A Spocter

  6. The Minicolumn in Comparative Context

    Article • January 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Muhammad A Spocter

  7. Microbats appear to have adult hippocampal neurogenesis, but post-capture stress causes a rapid decline in the number of neurons expressing doublecortin

    Article • Neuroscience, September 2014, Elsevier

    Dr Muhammad A Spocter

  8. The Cerebral Cortex of the Pygmy Hippopotamus,Hexaprotodon liberiensis(Cetartiodactyla, Hippopotamidae): MRI, Cytoarchitecture, and Neuronal Morphology

    Article • The Anatomical Record, January 2014, Wiley

    Dr Muhammad A Spocter

  9. In contrast to many other mammals, cetaceans have relatively small hippocampi that appear to lack adult neurogenesis

    Article • Brain Structure and Function, November 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Muhammad A Spocter

  10. The Continuously Growing Central Nervous System of the Nile Crocodile (Crocodylus niloticus)

    Article • The Anatomical Record, September 2013, Wiley

    Professor Suzana Herculano-Houzel, Dr Muhammad A Spocter

  11. The Evolutions of Large Brain Size in Mammals: The ‘Over-700-Gram Club Quartet'

    Article • Brain Behavior and Evolution, January 2013, Karger Publishers

    Dr Muhammad A Spocter

  12. Qualitative and Quantitative Aspects of the Microanatomy of the African Elephant Cerebellar Cortex

    Article • Brain Behavior and Evolution, December 2012, Karger Publishers

    Dr Muhammad A Spocter

  13. Neuropil distribution in the cerebral cortex differs between humans and chimpanzees

    Article • The Journal of Comparative Neurology, July 2012, Wiley

    Dr Muhammad A Spocter

  14. The mass of the human brain: is it a spandrel?

    Article • March 2012, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Muhammad A Spocter

  15. Elephants Have Relatively the Largest Cerebellum Size of Mammals

    Article • The Anatomical Record, January 2012, Wiley

    Dr Muhammad A Spocter

  16. Anatomy, medical education, and human ancestral variation

    Article • Anatomical Sciences Education, October 2011, Wiley

    Dr Muhammad A Spocter, Professor Goran Strkalj

  17. Volumetric Analysis of the African Elephant Ventricular System

    Article • The Anatomical Record, June 2011, Wiley

    Dr Muhammad A Spocter

  18. Neocortical neuron morphology in Afrotheria: comparing the rock hyrax with the African elephant

    Article • Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, April 2011, Wiley

    Dr Muhammad A Spocter

  19. Wernicke's area homologue in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) and its relation to the appearance of modern human language

    Article • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, March 2010, Royal Society Publishing

    Dr Muhammad A Spocter

  20. Inhibitory interneurons of the human prefrontal cortex display conserved evolution of the phenotype and related genes

    Article • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, December 2009, Royal Society Publishing

    Dr Muhammad A Spocter

  21. Broca's Area Homologue in Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes): Probabilistic Mapping, Asymmetry, and Comparison to Humans

    Article • Cerebral Cortex, July 2009, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Muhammad A Spocter

  22. Species-specific distributions of tyrosine hydroxylase–immunoreactive neurons in the prefrontal cortex of anthropoid primates

    Article • Neuroscience, February 2009, Elsevier

    Dr Muhammad A Spocter

  23. An assessment of sex using the skull of black South Africans by discriminant function analysis

    Article • HOMO, July 2008, Elsevier

    Dr Muhammad A Spocter

  24. The use of cranial variables for the estimation of body mass in fossil hominins

    Article • American Journal of Physical Anthropology, June 2007, Wiley

    Dr Muhammad A Spocter