Reply to Skoyles: Decline in growth rate, not muscle mass, predicts the human childhood peak in brain metabolism.
Department of Anthropology, Institute for Policy Research, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208; kuzawa@northwestern.edu.
Christopher W
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Kuzawa
Positron Emission Tomography Center, Children's Hospital of Michigan, Detroit, MI 48201; Departments of Pediatrics and Neurology and.
Harry T
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Chugani
Center for Molecular Medicine and Genetics, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, MI 48201;
Lawrence I
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Grossman
Neurology and Center for Molecular Medicine and Genetics, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, MI 48201;
Leonard
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Lipovich
Departments of Pediatrics and.
Otto
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Muzik
Fishberg Department of Neuroscience and Friedman Brain Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029;
Patrick R
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Hof
Center for Molecular Medicine and Genetics, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, MI 48201; Institute for Genomic Biology, Department of Molecular and Integrative Physiology, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL 61801; and.
Derek E
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Wildman
Department of Anthropology, The George Washington University, Washington, DC 20052; and.
Chet C
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Sherwood
Department of Anthropology.
William R
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Leonard
Departments of Psychiatry and Biostatistics, Harvard University and McLean Hospital, Cambridge, MA 02138.
Nicholas
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Lange
D001481:Basal Metabolism; D005075:Biological Evolution; D001921:Brain / Q000196:embryology* / Q000378:metabolism*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male