“You have a smooth brain. No ridges or lumps, no valleys or bumps,” a soothing voice says in a TikTok audio used in almost 100,000 videos. “All ideas slide right off.” The “smooth brain ...

Mutation of Lis1, a key dynein regulator, can lead to the rare mental developmental disorder lissencephaly, or “smooth brain, ...

Lissencephaly means “smooth brain.” It is a brain abnormality wherein the brain’s outer layer has fewer folds. Conditions that can cause lissencephaly include Miller-Dieker syndrome and ...

Our cells rely on microscopic highways and specialized protein vehicles to move everything—from positioning organelles to ...

which is normally folded and furrowed to fit more brain into a limited skull, instead has a smooth appearance (lissencephaly) and is often smaller than normal (microcephaly). The disease is ...