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 ...

The human brain has been called the most complex object in the known universe. And with good reason: It has around 86 billion neurons and several hundred thousand miles of axon fibers connecting them.

T1-weighted MRIs have been chosen for our study due to the difficulties in achieving a better clustering for brain tissue regions. The clustering segmentation method processed MRIs of brain tissue ...

April 30, 2012 (Florence, Italy) — Extensive loss of gray matter during adolescence and abnormal development of white matter could contribute to the onset of schizophrenia, according to midpoint ...

The inner regions of the brain look white - in fact, they are referred to as "white matter" - because of the myelin encasing the many large bundles of axons there. But the new study finds increased ...

Traditionally, neuroscience regards the brain as being made up of two basic tissue types. Billions of neurons make up the grey matter, forming a thin layer on the brain's surface. These neuronal cells ...