Harvard team discovers how the brain gets its folds

The brain's distinctive folds aren't an accident of nature -- they likely evolved to fit a large cortex into a small skull. What we didn't know is how the brain gets its folds -- until now.
A team at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences has now found that a mechanical instability associated with buckling is the likely cause of the brain's folds. By: Emily Reynolds, Continue reading...