Foreword by Sten Grillner
Introduction by the Editors, Nico J. Diederich, Martin Brüne, Katrin Amunts, Christopher G. Goetz
Part I: Human Brain Evolution: From Anatomy to Function
Chapter 1: Human Telencephalization
Katrin Amunts and Felix Ströckens
Chapter 2: Evolutionary Aspects of Glial Expansion
Pierre Magistretti, Patrick Hof , Corrado Cali, and Nicole Ackermans
Chapter 3: The Contribution of Mitochondrial Evolution and Dysfunction to Neurodegeneration
Anne Grünewald, Sandro Pereira, and Kobi Wasner
Chapter 4: Intrinsic Templates for Neurodegenerations Featuring Disease-specific Axonal or Dendritic Vulnerability
Toshiki Uchihara
Chapter 5: Differences in Brain Gene Expression Between Humans and Primates
Geneviève Konopka and Emre Caglayan
Chapter 6: Adapative Archaic Introgression
Olga Dolgova and Oscar Lao
Chapter 7: Goal-directed and Habitual Behaviors: Anatomical and Functional Circuits in Health and Neurological Disease
Ledia F. Hernandez and Ignacio Obeso
Part II: How Human Brain Diseases Are Impacted By Human Evolution
Chapter 8: Alzheimer's Disease, the Parietal Lobes, and the Evolution of the Human Genus
Emiliano Bruner and Heidi I.L. Jacobs
Chapter 9: Parkinson's Disease - Overstrain Focused of Basal Ganglia and Brainstem Nuclei
Nico J. Diederich and Christopher G. Goetz
Chapter 10: Brain Diseases Associated with Unstable Repeats
Peng Jin, Katharine Shelly, and Emily G. Allen
Chapter 11: The Properties of Cortico-Motoneuronal Connections and Their Evolutionary Significance for Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
Roger Lemon
Chapter 12: REM Sleep Behavior Disorder - Nocturnal Replay of a "Fight and Flee"
Nico Diederich and Isabelle Arnulf
Chapter 13: Mood Disorders: An Evolutionary Psycho-Neuro-Immunological Approach
Markus J Rantala Javier I. Borráz-León
Chapter 14: Schizophrenia - Embracing the Spectrum
John S. Allen
Chapter 15: Williams Syndrome and Autism - Dysfunction of Frontal Networks
Katerina Semendeferi and Isabel August
Chapter 16: ADHD - An Evolutionary View
Annie Swanepoel
Chapter 17: Addiction - Diverted Reward and Motivation Principles
Roger Sullivan and Edward Hagen
Part 3: Consequences and perspectives on research and clinical sciences
Chapter 18: Conditions of Comparative Brain Connectomics
Kathleen Rockland, Daniel Zachlod, and Katrin Amunts
Chapter 19: Are Evolutionary Concepts Helfpul in Designing Preventive Strategies for Brain Diseases?
Gilberto Levy and Bruce Levin
Chapter 20: Evolutionary Aspects of Neuro-Psychopharmocology
Martin Brüne, Riadh Abed, and Paul St. John-Smith
Chapter 21: Ongoing Human Evolution?
Frank Rühli, Maciej Henneberg, and Nicole Bender
Chapter 22: Human Cultural Evolution Outpaces Biological Evolution: A Brain Connectomic Approach
Jean-Pierre Changeux
Chapter 23: Concluding Remarks and Future Directions
Martin Brüne, Katrin Amunts, Nico J. Diederich, and Christopher G. Goetz
