{"id":21639,"date":"2016-02-04T21:52:02","date_gmt":"2016-02-05T05:52:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/scientists-discover-how-the-human-brain-folds"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:12:58","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:12:58","slug":"scientists-discover-how-the-human-brain-folds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/scientists-discover-how-the-human-brain-folds","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Discover How the Human Brain Folds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-discover-how-the-human-brain-folds.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists were able to study brain growth using a 3D gel model in order to see how the human brain gets its folds.<\/p>\n<p>New research shows that our brains are likely folded because, as they grow, a large amount of volume has to fit in a small space (AKA, our skulls). This compression is actually beneficial, the folds reduce the length of neuronal wiring, improving cognitive function.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences teamed up with scientists in Finland and France to find out more about the folding process. <em> <\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/futurism.com\/scientists-discover-human-brain-folds\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists were able to study brain growth using a 3D gel model in order to see how the human brain gets its folds. New research shows that our brains are likely folded because, as they grow, a large amount of volume has to fit in a small space (AKA, our skulls). This compression is actually [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21639"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68599,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21639\/revisions\/68599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}