MIT Researchers Model Brain Development

Large mammals–humans, monkeys, and even cats–have brains with a somewhat mysterious feature: The outermost layer has a folded surface. Understanding the functional significance of these folds is one of the big open questions in neuroscience. Now a team led by MIT, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School researchers has developed a tool that could aid such studies by helping researchers “see” how those folds develop and decay in the cerebral cortex.

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