One of our most contentious debates may now have an answer. Dogs, it turns out, have about twice the number of neurons in their cerebral cortexes than what cats have, which suggests they could be ...

Motor cortex articles from across Nature Portfolio The motor cortex is the region of the cerebral cortex including the primary motor, premotor and supplementary motor cortices that is responsible ...

Visual system articles from across Nature Portfolio The visual system is the part of the central nervous system that is required for visual perception – receiving, processing and interpreting ...

Aims To further characterise the ‘tubulinopathy’ spectrum of overlapping brain malformations (including lissencephaly, polymicrogyria and mildly simplified gyral patterning) that arise from tubulin ...