While photographing shelves of human brains stored away in a closet at the University of Texas for his next book, Adam Voorhes happened upon a truly unique find: a brain with no folds. David Dexter, scientific director at Parkinson’s UK Brain Bank, told New Scientist that he had never seen an adult brain like this before: “We do get the odd individual where certain sulci are missing but nothing to the extent of this brain.” The lack of grooves (sulci) and folds (gyri) that characterize a human brain are due to a rare condition called lissencephaly. The disorder is...
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