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Roberto Lent is affiliated with the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil and has contributed extensively to research primarily within the fields of Medicine and Neuroscience. Their work spans numerous subfields, including Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging; Cognitive Neuroscience; Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health; Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience; and Developmental Neuroscience.

The focus of their research addresses several topics, prominently including Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications, Fetal and Pediatric Neurological Disorders, and Functional Brain Connectivity Studies. Additional topics explored by Lent include Neurogenesis and neuroplasticity mechanisms, Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research, Mosquito-borne diseases and control, and Viral Infections and Vectors.

Roberto Lent's recent publications highlight a continued interest in brain connectivity and cortical structures. Key papers include:

  • "The relevance of heterotopic callosal fibers to interhemispheric connectivity of the mammalian brain," 2022, Cerebral Cortex
  • "Direct Interhemispheric Cortical Communication via Thalamic Commissures: A New White-Matter Pathway in the Rodent Brain," 2021, Cerebral Cortex
  • "Corpus callosum dysgenesis causes novel patterns of structural and functional brain connectivity," 2021, Brain Communications
  • "Long-distance aberrant heterotopic connectivity in a mouse strain with a high incidence of callosal anomalies," 2020, NeuroImage
  • "The Dynamics of Axon Bifurcation Development in the Cerebral Cortex of Typical and Acallosal Mice," 2021, Neuroscience

The scientist frequently publishes in the journal Cerebral Cortex, contributing to five papers there. Other venues include bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) with two publications, as well as Brain Communications, NeuroImage, and Neuroscience.

Frequent collaborators of Roberto Lent include Fernanda Tovar-Moll, Diego Szczupak, Afonso C. Silva, Pamela Meneses Iack, and Patrícia P. Garcez, reflecting ongoing research partnerships across multiple studies.

Best Publications

  • Equal numbers of neuronal and nonneuronal cells make the human brain an isometrically scaled‐up primate brain

    Frederico A.C. Azevedo;Ludmila R.B. Carvalho;Lea T. Grinberg;José Marcelo Farfel

  • Cem bilhões de neurônios: conceitos fundamentais de neurociência

    Roberto Lent

  • Isotropic Fractionator: A Simple, Rapid Method for the Quantification of Total Cell and Neuron Numbers in the Brain

    Suzana Herculano-Houzel;Roberto Lent

  • Cellular scaling rules for rodent brains

    Suzana Herculano-Houzel;Bruno Mota;Roberto Lent

  • Changing numbers of neuronal and non-neuronal cells underlie postnatal brain growth in the rat.

    Fabiana Bandeira;Roberto Lent;Suzana Herculano-Houzel

  • How many neurons do you have? Some dogmas of quantitative neuroscience under revision.

    Roberto Lent;Frederico A. C. Azevedo;Carlos H. Andrade-Moraes;Ana V. O. Pinto

  • The basic nonuniformity of the cerebral cortex

    Suzana Herculano-Houzel;Christine E. Collins;Peiyan Wong;Jon H. Kaas

  • Cell number changes in Alzheimer’s disease relate to dementia, not to plaques and tangles

    Carlos Humberto Andrade-Moraes;Ana V. Oliveira-Pinto;Emily Castro-Fonseca;Camila G. da Silva

  • Sexual dimorphism in the human olfactory bulb: females have more neurons and glial cells than males.

    Ana V. Oliveira-Pinto;Raquel M. Santos;Renan A. Coutinho;Lays M. Oliveira

  • Cortical radial glial cells in human fetuses: depth-correlated transformation into astrocytes.

    Leonardo C deAzevedo;Cathérine Fallet;Vivaldo Moura-Neto;Cathérine Daumas-Duport

  • Neuroplasticity in human callosal dysgenesis: a diffusion tensor imaging study.

    Fernanda Tovar-Moll;Jorge Moll;Ricardo de Oliveira-Souza;Ivanei Bramati

  • Inhibition of Alzheimer’s disease β-amyloid aggregation, neurotoxicity, and in vivo deposition by nitrophenols: implications for Alzheimer’s therapy

    Fernanda G. De Felice;Jean-Christophe Houzel;José Garcia-Abreu;Paulo Roberto F. Louzada

  • Functional expansion of sensorimotor representation and structural reorganization of callosal connections in lower limb amputees.

    Elington L. Simões;Ivanei Bramati;Erika Rodrigues;Ana Franzoi

  • Structural and functional brain rewiring clarifies preserved interhemispheric transfer in humans born without the corpus callosum.

    Fernanda Tovar-Moll;Myriam Monteiro;Juliana Andrade;Ivanei E. Bramati

  • The Absolute Number of Oligodendrocytes in the Adult Mouse Brain.

    Bruna Valério-Gomes;Daniel M. Guimarães;Diego Szczupak;Roberto Lent

  • Maternal Exercise during Pregnancy Increases BDNF Levels and Cell Numbers in the Hippocampal Formation but Not in the Cerebral Cortex of Adult Rat Offspring.

    Sérgio Gomes da Silva;Sérgio Gomes da Silva;Sérgio Gomes da Silva;Alexandre Aparecido de Almeida;Jansen Fernandes;Glauber Menezes Lopim

  • Ephrin-A5 acts as a repulsive cue for migrating cortical interneurons.

    Geraldine Zimmer;Geraldine Zimmer;Patricia Garcez;Patricia Garcez;Judith Rudolph;Ronny Niehage

  • Chondroitin Sulfate Acts in Concert with Semaphorin 3A to Guide Tangential Migration of Cortical Interneurons in the Ventral Telencephalon

    Geraldine Zimmer;Geraldine Zimmer;Sheine M. Schanuel;Susanne Bürger;Franco Weth

  • The organization of subcortical projections of the hamster's visual cortex.

    Roberto Lent

  • Enhancing motor network activity using real-time functional MRI neurofeedback of left premotor cortex

    Theo F. Marins;Erika C. Rodrigues;Annerose Engel;Sebastian Hoefle

Frequent Co-Authors

Fernanda Tovar-Moll
Fernanda Tovar-Moll Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
Suzana Herculano-Houzel
Suzana Herculano-Houzel Vanderbilt University
Afonso C. Silva
Afonso C. Silva University of Pittsburgh
Ricardo Mario Arida
Ricardo Mario Arida Federal University of Sao Paulo
Jürgen Bolz
Jürgen Bolz Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Rosalia Mendez-Otero
Rosalia Mendez-Otero Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
Sergio T. Ferreira
Sergio T. Ferreira Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
Esper A. Cavalheiro
Esper A. Cavalheiro Federal University of Sao Paulo
Fernanda G. De Felice
Fernanda G. De Felice Queen's University
Amilcar Tanuri
Amilcar Tanuri Federal University of Rio de Janeiro

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