The cerebral cortex is the largest part of a mammal's brain, and by some measures the most important. In humans in particular, it's where most things happen-like perception, thinking, memory storage ...

New neuroscience research identifies Glutamine Synthetase as the key enzyme driving postnatal brain maturation and neuronal ...

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A layer deep in the cerebral cortex, which is the innermost layer of the mammalian brain, has recently been found to play a role in the regulation of brain states associated with wakefulness and ...

Functional cortex parcelling was the subject of Armonaitė's research during her PhD studies at the University of Uninettuno in Italy. "The cerebral cortex is not homogeneous, and different areas can ...

Historical views of the brain reflect the biases of the time. The industrial age spawned mechanical explanations for the ...

A team of researchers from Spain was curious to know if people with high psychopathic traits have anomalies in the brain's physical structures, which make them incapable of feeling regret or capable ...

An intense international effort to improve the resolution of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) for studying the human brain has culminated in an ultra-high resolution 7 Tesla scanner that records up to ...

A good cry and short break later, I have my answer: I was attempting to think deeply when my brain wasn’t able to do so.