How a Brain Gets Folds (IMAGE)

Yale University

How a Brain Gets Folds

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On the left, the occipital region of a normal human brain is circled. On the right, the same area of the brain of a subject with mutation of LAMC3 gene is smooth, and lacks normal folds and convolutions.

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