The outer layer of the human brain (the cerebral cortex), characterized by its distinctive gyri and sulci (those distinctive ridges and furrows), controls cognitive and executive function, from ...

Many grooves and dimples on the surface of the brain are unique to humans, but they’re often dismissed as an uninteresting consequence of packing an unusually large brain into a too-small skull. But ...

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. Subscribe to ...

Learning your way around the brain is pretty difficult; I spent a long time trying to learn the basics of neuroanatomy… and I bet if you did a pop quiz of neuroscientists the results would be rather ...

Researchers identify mutation that causes excessive folding in human brain's wrinkly cerebral cortex, resulting in diminished cognitive function. The outer layer of the human brain or cerebral cortex, ...