cerebral cortex

The way autism is diagnosed could become less subjective by using a brain-imaging-based test that is being developed by researchers and that, in early trials, was 94 percent accurate. Autism is now diagnosed through a symptom-based test: A health-care provider observes a patient for the...

Colorful past Thursday, February 26, 2009 Music can stir up to tears, and a few tones of a song are enough to feelings and memories to recall from decades ago. How is that possible? A music scholar from California, thinks the answer, and hopes that his knowledge to help Alzheimer's patients...

Scientists Map the 10 Billion Neuron of Human Cerebral Cortex & Find a Central Switchboard Thursday, February 12, 2009 A Galaxy Insight The study of the human brain is one of the most fascinating, and incredibly meta, subjects in existence. The almost Esch Rian experiments of one brain...