"A really big question that, at least I ask myself, is, 'How do we become who we are?'" University of Virginia psychology ...

Mila Minotti said she was left "a little shocked" by what happened with her partner as they left the hospital that day.

In the baby, genes associated with insulin action ... Vosberg et al, Intrauterine growth and the tangential expansion of the human cerebral cortex in times of food scarcity and abundance, Nature ...

If it decides yes, your brain's motor cortex, a small area that exists on the outer part of your brain, calls for messages to be sent through your spinal cord and down your arm to the muscles that ...

Radial migration is the principal mode of migration in the developing cerebral cortex, although the GABA (γ-aminobutyric acid)-expressing interneurons, which arise in the ventral telencephalon ...

The cerebral cortex forms the outer layer of the cerebrum. Nested deeper within the brain are essential structures such as the basal ganglia, the amygdala, and the hippocampus. Toward the bottom ...

Using a single-cell sequencing technique, it was possible to characterize the different cell types present in the brain ...

Wilder Penfield, a pioneering brain surgeon, mapped the motor cortex using mild electric current. Wilder Penfield took the next exploratory voyage into the brain starting in the 1940s. While ...