“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 ...

On any given day, your thoughts leap from one subject to another — your grocery list, a deadline, a song stuck in your head. But sometimes, they stop altogether. You stare at the screen.

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 ...

In fact, evidence from electroencephalography (EEG) suggests that while the person remains awake during a mind blank, their brain might be going into what’s been called a “local sleep” state.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The roundworm Caenorhabditis elegans is revealing the molecular glitch behind a rare brain disorder. In lissencephaly – Greek for "smooth brain" – the cerebral cortex lacks characteristic convolutions ...

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 ...

You know that feeling when your mind goes blank? One minute you’re happily getting on with something; the next, it’s like all the thoughts have just fallen out of your head. A new study is ...