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“Conel’s work has provided us with an extraordinarily valuable picture of the development of the cerebral cortex from birth to two years. Before birth, our information is scanty and qualitative, and after two years it is practically nonexistent” (Tanner, 1961). This was written 16 years ago. In the meantime, Conel (1963, 1967) published his atlases of the cerebral cortex of children of 4 and 6 years, and we completed his last unfinished atlas of the child of 8 years. We also obtained some preliminary data on the brain at 10 years and at 22 years. We completed our atlas on the cerebral cortex of the premature baby of 8 months gestational age and now have some information on the cortex of premature babies of 7 and 6 months. Together with the data available from von Economo and Koskinas (1925) on the adult cerebral cortex, it is now possible to get at least a first idea on the maturation of the cerebral cortex from the premature infant of 6 months gestation, through 10 years postnatal age and to adulthood on almost all the cortical areas.
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Rabinowicz, T. (1979). The Differentiate Maturation of the Human Cerebral Cortex. In: Falkner, F., Tanner, J.M. (eds) Human Growth. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-0817-1_2
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