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 ...

A layer deep in the cerebral cortex, which is the innermost layer of the mammalian brain, has recently been found to play a ...