Last week, on my way to a conference in Reykjavik, Iceland, I had the opportunity to read Zach Schonbrun's new book, The Performance Cortex: How Neuroscience is Redefining Athletic Genius. Schonbrun's ...

The cerebral cortex is your brain’s outermost layer. It has a wrinkled appearance due to the grooves and folds that increase its surface area. Here, we look at the anatomy of the cerebral cortex and ...

The ability to store phantom images in our brain in order to make visual comparisons is impaired by damage to the prefrontal cortex, but intact regions of the PFC pick up the slack in less than a ...

A first-ever identification has been made of the alterations in the neuronal circuit that impact cerebral cortex physiology, and that could be the cause of cognitive deficits in Down Syndrome. The ...