The reason our brains have that wrinkly, walnut shape may be that the rapid growth of the brain's outer brain the gray matter is constrained by the white matter, a new study shows. Researchers found ...

The limbic system helps regulate emotional and social processing, as well as learning, motivation, and memory. It consists of structures that lie beneath the outer, wrinkly part of the brain and above ...

Neuroscientists already know that brain neurons can and do form specific rather than random connections with each other to generate the observed wiring diagram of the brain. However, the precise ...

Folds in the cerebral cortex in mammals are believed to be indispensable for higher brain functions but the mechanisms underlying cortical folding remain unknown. By using the latest genome editing ...

The human brain is highly developed compared to other animals, thanks to which humans are believed to have acquired special abilities. One of the important factors considered to contribute to the ...

All together, by combining physical experiments and numerical simulations originating with initially smooth 3D fetal brain geometries, we have quantified a simple mechanical folding scenario for the ...