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@ARTICLE{Campos:890545,
author = {Campos, Lucas and Hornung, Raphael and Gompper, Gerhard and
Elgeti, Jens and Caspers, Svenja},
title = {{T}he role of thickness inhomogeneities in hierarchical
cortical folding.},
journal = {NeuroImage},
volume = {231},
issn = {1053-8119},
address = {Orlando, Fla.},
publisher = {Academic Press},
reportid = {FZJ-2021-01027},
pages = {117779},
year = {2021},
abstract = {The mammalian brain cortex is highly folded, with several
developmental disorders affecting folding. On the extremes,
lissencephaly, a lack of folds in humans, and
polymicrogyria, an overly folded brain, can lead to severe
mental retardation, short life expectancy, epileptic
seizures, and tetraplegia. Not only a specific degree of
folding, but also stereotyped patterns are required for
normal brain function. A quantitative model on how and why
these folds appear during the development of the brain is
the first step in understanding the cause of these
conditions. In recent years, there have been various
attempts to understand and model the mechanisms of brain
folding. Previous works have shown that mechanical
instabilities play a crucial role in the formation of brain
folds, and that the geometry of the fetal brain is one of
the main factors in dictating its folding characteristics.
However, modeling higher-order folding, one of the main
characteristics of the highly gyrencephalic brain, has not
been fully tackled. The simulations presented in this work
are used to study the effects of thickness inhomogeneity in
the gyrogenesis of the mammalian brain in silico.
Finite-element simulations of rectangular slabs are
performed. These slabs are divided into two distinct
regions, where the outer region mimics the gray matter, and
the inner region the underlying white matter. Differential
growth is introduced by growing the top region tangentially,
while keeping the underlying region untouched. The brain
tissue is modeled as a neo-Hookean hyperelastic material.
Simulations are performed with both, homogeneous and
inhomogeneous cortical thickness. Our results show that the
homogeneous cortex folds into a single wavelength, as is
common for bilayered materials, while the inhomogeneous
cortex folds into more complex conformations. In the early
stages of development of the inhomogeneous cortex,
structures reminiscent of the deep sulci in the brain are
obtained. As the cortex continues to develop, secondary
undulations, which are shallower and more variable than the
structures obtained in earlier gyrification stage emerge,
reproducing well-known characteristics of higher-order
folding in the mammalian, and particularly the human,
brain.},
keywords = {cortical folding (Other) / cortical thickness (Other) /
gyrification (Other) / gyrogenesis (Other) / higher-order
folding (Other)},
cin = {INM-1 / IBI-5},
ddc = {610},
cid = {I:(DE-Juel1)INM-1-20090406 / I:(DE-Juel1)IBI-5-20200312},
pnm = {525 - Decoding Brain Organization and Dysfunction
(POF4-525) / HBP SGA3 - Human Brain Project Specific Grant
Agreement 3 (945539) / 5243 - Information Processing in
Distributed Systems (POF4-524)},
pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF4-525 / G:(EU-Grant)945539 /
G:(DE-HGF)POF4-5243},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16},
pubmed = {pmid:33548459},
UT = {WOS:000656560100005},
doi = {10.1016/j.neuroimage.2021.117779},
url = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/890545},
}