Last week, on my way to a conference in Reykjavik, Iceland, I had the opportunity to read Zach Schonbrun's new book, The Performance Cortex: How Neuroscience is Redefining Athletic Genius. Schonbrun's ...

Figure 1: Two opposing views of the motor cortex. The stimulation-evoked movements observed by Fritsch and Hitzig suggest that motor cortex is a structure for movement generation, whereas the ...

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 109, No. 49 (December 4, 2012), pp. 19900-19909 (10 pages) Humans are adept at switching between goal-directed ...

Laura holds a Master's in Experimental Neuroscience and a Bachelor's in Biology from Imperial College London. Her areas of expertise include health, medicine, psychology, and neuroscience.View full ...

A first-ever identification has been made of the alterations in the neuronal circuit that impact cerebral cortex physiology, and that could be the cause of cognitive deficits in Down Syndrome. The ...