NeuroImage (Mar 2021)
Imaging evolution of the primate brain: the next frontier?
- Patrick Friedrich,
- Stephanie J. Forkel,
- Céline Amiez,
- Joshua H. Balsters,
- Olivier Coulon,
- Lingzhong Fan,
- Alexandros Goulas,
- Fadila Hadj-Bouziane,
- Erin E. Hecht,
- Katja Heuer,
- Tianzi Jiang,
- Robert D. Latzman,
- Xiaojin Liu,
- Kep Kee Loh,
- Kaustubh R. Patil,
- Alizée Lopez-Persem,
- Emmanuel Procyk,
- Jerome Sallet,
- Roberto Toro,
- Sam Vickery,
- Susanne Weis,
- Charles R. E. Wilson,
- Ting Xu,
- Valerio Zerbi,
- Simon B. Eickoff,
- Daniel S. Margulies,
- Rogier B. Mars,
- Michel Thiebaut de Schotten
Affiliations
- Patrick Friedrich
- Brain Connectivity and Behaviour Laboratory, Sorbonne Universities, Paris, France; Groupe d'Imagerie Neurofonctionnelle, Institut des Maladies Neurodégénératives-UMR 5293, CNRS, CEA, University of Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France; Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (Brain & Behaviour, INM-7), Research Center Jülich, Germany; Corresponding authors: Brain Connectivity and Behaviour Laboratory, Sorbonne Universities, Paris, France.
- Stephanie J. Forkel
- Brain Connectivity and Behaviour Laboratory, Sorbonne Universities, Paris, France; Groupe d'Imagerie Neurofonctionnelle, Institut des Maladies Neurodégénératives-UMR 5293, CNRS, CEA, University of Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France; Centre for Neuroimaging Sciences, Department of Neuroimaging, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, London, United Kingdom
- Céline Amiez
- Univ Lyon, Université Lyon 1, Inserm, Stem Cell and Brain Research Institute, U1208 Bron, France
- Joshua H. Balsters
- Department of Psychology, Royal Holloway University of London, United Kingdom
- Olivier Coulon
- Institut de Neurosciences de la Timone, Aix Marseille Univ, CNRS, UMR 7289, Marseille, France; Institute for Language, Communication, and the Brain, Aix-Marseille University, Marseille, France
- Lingzhong Fan
- Brainnetome Center and National Laboratory of Pattern Recognition, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China; CAS Center for Excellence in Brain Science and Intelligence Technology, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
- Alexandros Goulas
- Institute of Computational Neuroscience, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg University, Hamburg, Germany
- Fadila Hadj-Bouziane
- Lyon Neuroscience Research Center, ImpAct Team, INSERM U1028, CNRS UMR5292, Université Lyon 1, Bron, France
- Erin E. Hecht
- Department of Human Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States
- Katja Heuer
- Center for Research and Interdisciplinarity (CRI), Université de Paris, Inserm, Paris 75004, France; Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany
- Tianzi Jiang
- Brainnetome Center and National Laboratory of Pattern Recognition, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China; CAS Center for Excellence in Brain Science and Intelligence Technology, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China; The Queensland Brain Institute, University of Queensland, Brisbane QLD 4072, Australia
- Robert D. Latzman
- Department of Psychology, Georgia State University, Atlanta, United States
- Xiaojin Liu
- Institute of Systems Neuroscience, Medical Faculty, Heinrich-Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany; Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (Brain & Behaviour, INM-7), Research Center Jülich, Germany
- Kep Kee Loh
- Institut de Neurosciences de la Timone, Aix Marseille Univ, CNRS, UMR 7289, Marseille, France; Institute for Language, Communication, and the Brain, Aix-Marseille University, Marseille, France
- Kaustubh R. Patil
- Institute of Systems Neuroscience, Medical Faculty, Heinrich-Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany; Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (Brain & Behaviour, INM-7), Research Center Jülich, Germany
- Alizée Lopez-Persem
- Frontlab, Institut du Cerveau et de la Moelle épinière (ICM), UPMC UMRS 1127, Inserm U 1127, CNRS UMR 7225, Paris, France; Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
- Emmanuel Procyk
- Univ Lyon, Université Lyon 1, Inserm, Stem Cell and Brain Research Institute, U1208 Bron, France
- Jerome Sallet
- Univ Lyon, Université Lyon 1, Inserm, Stem Cell and Brain Research Institute, U1208 Bron, France; Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
- Roberto Toro
- Center for Research and Interdisciplinarity (CRI), Université de Paris, Inserm, Paris 75004, France; Neuroscience department, Institut Pasteur, UMR 3571, CNRS, Université de Paris, Paris 75015, France
- Sam Vickery
- Institute of Systems Neuroscience, Medical Faculty, Heinrich-Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany; Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (Brain & Behaviour, INM-7), Research Center Jülich, Germany
- Susanne Weis
- Institute of Systems Neuroscience, Medical Faculty, Heinrich-Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany; Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (Brain & Behaviour, INM-7), Research Center Jülich, Germany
- Charles R. E. Wilson
- Univ Lyon, Université Lyon 1, Inserm, Stem Cell and Brain Research Institute, U1208 Bron, France
- Ting Xu
- Child Mind Institute, New York, United States
- Valerio Zerbi
- Neural Control of Movement Lab, Department of Health Sciences and Technology, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
- Simon B. Eickoff
- Institute of Systems Neuroscience, Medical Faculty, Heinrich-Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany; Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (Brain & Behaviour, INM-7), Research Center Jülich, Germany
- Daniel S. Margulies
- Brain Connectivity and Behaviour Laboratory, Sorbonne Universities, Paris, France
- Rogier B. Mars
- Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, Centre for Functional MRI of the Brain (FMRIB), Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, John Radcliffe Hospital, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom; Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University Nijmegen, Nijmegen, Netherlands
- Michel Thiebaut de Schotten
- Corresponding authors: Brain Connectivity and Behaviour Laboratory, Sorbonne Universities, Paris, France.; Brain Connectivity and Behaviour Laboratory, Sorbonne Universities, Paris, France; Groupe d'Imagerie Neurofonctionnelle, Institut des Maladies Neurodégénératives-UMR 5293, CNRS, CEA, University of Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 228
p. 117685
Abstract
Evolution, as we currently understand it, strikes a delicate balance between animals' ancestral history and adaptations to their current niche. Similarities between species are generally considered inherited from a common ancestor whereas observed differences are considered as more recent evolution. Hence comparing species can provide insights into the evolutionary history. Comparative neuroimaging has recently emerged as a novel subdiscipline, which uses magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to identify similarities and differences in brain structure and function across species. Whereas invasive histological and molecular techniques are superior in spatial resolution, they are laborious, post-mortem, and oftentimes limited to specific species. Neuroimaging, by comparison, has the advantages of being applicable across species and allows for fast, whole-brain, repeatable, and multi-modal measurements of the structure and function in living brains and post-mortem tissue. In this review, we summarise the current state of the art in comparative anatomy and function of the brain and gather together the main scientific questions to be explored in the future of the fascinating new field of brain evolution derived from comparative neuroimaging.
