Brain power: Gene critical for human brain development identified and workings unravelled

Friday, June 3, 2016 - 07:20 in Biology & Nature

Compared to other mammals, humans have the largest cerebral cortex. A sheet of brain cells that folds in on itself multiple times in order to fit inside the skull, the cortex is the seat of higher functions. It is what enables us to process everything we see and hear and think.

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