The Unexplored Brain: Nearly 100 Uncharted Areas Revealed

A detailed new map of the human brain's outer layer identifies nearly 100 brain areas that have not been previously reported, according to a new study. In the study, researchers identified a total of 180 areas of the cerebral cortex — the outermost layer of the brain — in each brain hemisphere, said lead study author Matthew Glasser, a neuroscience researcher at Washington University in Saint Louis. The addition of the 97 new cortical areas shows that "the human cortex is even more c