Neocortical Development

The material contained in this volume was submitted as previously unpublished material, except in the instances in which credit has been given to the source from which some of the illustrative material was derived. Great care has been taken to maintain the accuracy of the information contained in the volume. However, neither Raven Press nor the authors can be held responsible for errors or for any consequences arising from the use of the information contained herein. AUTHORS' NOTE: This book is out of print. Raven Press no longer exists. The copyright to this book is being transferred to us. We want to make this information available to all who are interested in neocortical development. In the files available for download, we add a few pages that review some of the relevant literature that has been published since 1991. Our observations in 1991 are relevant to the multitude of gene expression studies done since the mid-90s and up to the present day. Many of the hypotheses that we proposed in this book have been confirmed by these studies. We also reexamine cell migration in the neocortex; the labeling patterns in our autoradiograms are consistent with studies showing tangential migration of GABA-ergic cells from germinal zones in the basal ganglia into the developing neocortex. We invite your comments on our work, and would like to answer any questions that you want to ask about how your research correlates with our findings.