“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 ...

But other cases were quite the opposite. In some people, a sudden spike in neural activity in the brain’s posterior regions preceded a blank. The authors believe that high-speed thinking might ...

Information overload. Instead of anxiety, smooth brain. This month, going by data supplied by KnowYourMeme, the online world has entered peak Return to Monke. Existing somewhere between cultural ...

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 ...

Meaning that, “when the brain is in a high- or low-arousal state, a mind blank is more likely to occur.” In experiments with healthy volunteers, the brain shows signs of “deactivation” and ...

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 ...

But not every species’ brain has these telltale wrinkles — smaller animals such as rats have smooth, pink thinkers. Human fetuses don’t start developing these folds until about week 23 of ...

Lissencephaly is a spectrum of rare, genetic disorders in which the brain fails to develop its hallmark folds. The disorders are often associated with seizures and intellectual disability and ...

Harvard scientists have 3-D printed a replica of a human brain — but it's not for any Frankenstein-esque experiments. The researchers wanted to help puzzle out the origins of the twisty, bendy ...

THAT MEANS AREAS OF THE BRAIN REMAIN SMOOTH, WHICH CAN CAUSE SIGNIFICANT DEVELOPMENTAL DELAYS AND OTHER SYMPTOMS. IT’S OFTEN GENETIC AND HAPPENS DURING FETAL DEVELOPMENT. THERE ARE MORE THAN 20 ...