Researchers at the University of Seville have analyzed alterations in the cerebral cortex in people suffering from psychosis. Their findings show that psychosis does not follow a single trajectory, ...

Researchers have developed a new approach for describing the shape of the cerebral cortex, and provide evidence that cortices across mammalian species resemble a universal, fractal pattern.

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 ...

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Brain tissue is an optical mess. Water, lipids, and tangled cellular membranes all bend light in different directions. If ...

The human brain, as the seat of mental life—from the most complicated intellectual processes down to routine and unconscious bodily control—is necessarily enormously complex. The largest part of the ...

It used to be thought that without the cerebral cortex, consciousness could not exist. New research, however, has found that humans and animals missing part or all of their cortices are still capable ...

Researchers at the Paris Brain Institute have identified the rostral prefrontal cortex as a key hub linking brain networks that generate and control creative thought. Studying patients with behavioral ...

Researchers mapped gene activity across the human cortex using single-cell sequencing, identifying over 3,000 sex-biased ...