Sentences with phrase «thinner outer layer of the brain»

Exposure to fine particles during fetal life was associated with a thinner outer layer of the brain, called the cortex, in several regions.

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So in the outer layer of the brain, the cerebral cortex gets thicker faster in intelligent kids, and it gets thinner compared to an average kid.

Avram Holmes, a psychologist at Yale University, and a team of researchers from Harvard University and Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, found that increased impulsivity and sensation - seeking in healthy young adults was linked to distinct differences in their brain structures: the areas involved in decision - making and self - control had a thinner cortex, the brain's wrinkled outer layer or gray matter.

[Previously: U.S. scientists find virus selectively infected cells forming the brain's cortex, the thin outer layer of folded gray matter]

Working with lab - grown human stem cells, scientists found that the virus selectively infected cells forming the brain's cortex, the thin outer layer of folded gray matter.

We also have a cerebral cortex — a thin layer on the outer portion of the brain that controls higher cognitive functions.