Severe forms of autism could be linked to overgrowth of the brain's outer layer that starts while a baby is in the womb, a new study finds. Toddlers with autism have cerebral cortexes -- often ...

(Funny; we had thought that humans had prefrontal cortexes even before the era of Talk Radio.) This isn’t the first study to explore the broad question of “How Do Voters Think?” (or is it, “What Were ...

It was a pretty dangerous place. I think the thing now is the way we are stressed by putting these excessive demands on our very powerful prefrontal cortexes, which I think is more of what makes ...

One such experiment she performed involved counting the neurons in the cortexes of a cat, golden retriever and a mixed-breed small dog. The cerebral cortex of the brain is involved in many higher ...

The results show that people who lived in enriched environments during childhood had thinner cortexes later in life. The cortex is the brain's outer layer, and studies have linked thinner cortexes ...

Dogs, it turns out, have about twice the number of neurons in their cerebral cortexes than what cats have, which suggests they could be about twice as intelligent. This finding was provisionally ...

Additionally, the researchers found a "significant association" among pleasure level, Stroop interference reaction time and the left dorsolateral prefrontal cortexes – which they note are ...

This is because people respond with their cerebral cortexes, the part of the brain that controls intelligence, rather than emotion or instinct. Their answers are the product of deliberation.

MIT neuroscientists recently watched the brains of 63 entrepreneurs and managers, and spotted a key difference: Entrepreneurs use their whole orbitofrontal cortexes, enabling them to be more ...

Olfactory cortexes and the olfactory tracts are involved in sporadic Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease. We examined peripheral regions of the olfactory sensory pathway, including the olfactory mucosa ...

Toddlers with autism have cerebral cortexes -- often referred to as "gray matter" -- that are roughly 40% larger than those of children without the developmental disorder, researchers reported ...