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Brain wrinkles and folds matter – researchers are studying the mechanics of how they form

  • Written by Mir Jalil Razavi, Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Binghamton University, State University of New York
imageBrain folding typically begins at the end of the second trimester of pregnancy and continues after birth.Hiroshi Watanabe/DigitalVision via Getty Images

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...

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