Rogier B. Mars

This paper compares neocortical sulcal anatomy across nine pinniped species to understand how cortical organization changes with adaptation to marine environments.

This paper develops a VAE-based framework to translate mouse brain gene expression to human, showing that mouse disease models predict human Alzheimer's and Parkinson's patterns and identify the best mouse model for AD patients.

The paper compares limbic-frontal connectivity across seven primate species, finding conserved connection patterns and differences in subgenual cingulum bundle connectivity.

This paper introduces standardized tractography protocols for mapping cortico-subcortical tracts in human and macaque brains, showing robustness and applicability across species.

This study compares white matter connectivity in two anthropoids and one strepsirrhine using diffusion MRI, finding greater dorsal prefrontal innervation in anthropoids.

The study uses MRI data from 70 primate species to show that neocortical folding and organisation depend on mechanical morphogenesis, not just genetics and experience.

Precon_all is a pipeline for non-human cortical surface reconstruction that generalizes human methods to multiple species, enabling comparative neuroimaging studies.

The paper compares white matter organization between humans, chimpanzees, and macaques, identifying uniquely human connectivity profiles in areas related to language and abstract reasoning.

This paper develops a hybrid diffusion MRI-microscopy tractography method to improve 3D brain connectivity reconstruction by combining high-resolution microscopy with diffusion MRI data.

The paper identifies distinct brain structural impacts of polygenic dyslexia disposition in adults using large-scale population data.

This study creates normative brain growth charts for rhesus macaques across their lifespan using MRI data, revealing developmental milestones and cross-species comparisons with humans.

This study compares hippocampal structure and function across humans and macaques to show conservation of micro- and macro-structure but evolutionary reconfiguration in functional connectivity.

This study examines neocortical sulcal anatomy across 26 carnivoran species using neuroimaging to identify patterns related to behavior and ecology.

This study compares the functional connectivity of the cingulate cortex in mouse and human, finding overall similarities but also human-specific subareas and connections.

This study compares sex differences in brain anatomy between humans and mice using neuroimaging, finding partial conservation of volumetric sex differences in cortical regions.

The paper introduces the BigMac dataset, combining multi-contrast MRI and microscopy data from a macaque brain, enabling multimodal analysis across scales and tissue states.

The paper compares rodent and human brain regions using spatial transcriptomics to assess cross-species gene expression similarity and introduces a machine learning method to improve correspondence.

This study shows that dMRI-FA in the cerebral cortex is primarily influenced by unmyelinated tissue features rather than myelinated axons.

This paper introduces a framework to study brain ontogeny and phylogeny by integrating connectivity maps across species and developmental stages.

The paper introduces the Digital Brain Bank, an open access platform providing curated post-mortem neuroimaging datasets across species and modalities for neuroanatomical and neuropathological research.

The paper investigates how white matter connectivity scales with brain size across primate species, finding a bottleneck in connectivity in larger brains.

The paper identifies a brain region in Rhesus macaques that shows computational properties similar to the human temporo-parietal junction, modulated by social interaction predictability.

This paper creates the first chimpanzee white matter atlas using diffusion MRI tractography, enabling comparative neuroanatomical studies between humans and chimpanzees.

The paper examines the relationship between morphology in the central and subcentral motor cortex and functional activity during movement of different effectors, showing inter-individual variability and its impact on functional localization.

The paper introduces PRIME-RE, a collaborative platform for sharing NHP neuroimaging resources, tools, and data.

This paper creates a common space for comparing pig and human structural connectomes to assess the translational validity of porcine neurological disease models.

This study maps human laryngeal motor cortex during vocalization and identifies two distinct larynx representations, confirming one is in primary motor cortex while the other's location remains uncertain.

The paper identifies a distributed frontal cortical circuit associated with behavioral flexibility in macaques through structural and functional imaging analyses of discrimination reversal learning.

The paper introduces XTRACT, a software package with standardised tractography protocols for automated white matter tract extraction in human and macaque brains, validated across datasets and species.

The paper compares cortico-striatal circuits across humans, non-human primates, and mice using resting state fMRI data, finding conserved patterns in some regions but unique circuits in primates.