The smallest grooves on the brain's surface, unique to humans, have largely been ignored by anatomists, but recent studies show that they're related to cognitive performance, including face ...

New MRI research shows that repeated football head impacts can subtly reshape brain structures, offering new clues about chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE). Study: Sulcal morphology in former ...

Whether by way of a soccer ball or another player’s head, sustaining too many whacks to the noggin leaves a visible mark on the brain. This was the common conclusion of two very different studies that ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. brain on black The folds and ridges of the human brain are more complex than any other in the animal kingdom, and a new study ...

Contact sport athletes showed significant brain injury in an autopsy study before signs of CTE appeared. Athletes who experienced repeated head hits had 56% fewer neurons at the depths of the cortical ...