The mechanical properties of soft tissues play a key role in studying human injuries and their
mitigation strategies. While such properties are indispensable for computational modelling …

Brain tissue is not only one of the most important but also the most complex and compliant
tissue in the human body. While long underestimated, increasing evidence confirms that …

Mechanics are increasingly recognized to play an important role in modulating brain form
and function. Computational simulations are a powerful tool to predict the mechanical …

Injectable hydrogels can provide a scaffold for in situ tissue regrowth and regeneration, yet
gel degradation before tissue reformation limits the gels' ability to provide physical support …

The mammalian brain is composed of an outer layer of gray matter, consisting of cell bodies,
dendrites, and unmyelinated axons, and an inner core of white matter, consisting primarily of …

The exterior of the mammalian brain—the cerebral cortex—has a conserved layered
structure whose thickness varies little across species. However, selection pressures over …

Beginning in the 1960s many studies have been performed to investigate the mechanical
properties of brain. In this paper we point out the difficulties linked with in vitro experimental …

Convolutions are a classical hallmark of most mammalian brains. Brain surface morphology
is often associated with intelligence and closely correlated with neurological dysfunction …

The rheology of ultrasoft materials like the human brain is highly sensitive to regional and
temporal variations and to the type of loading. While recent experiments have shaped our …

When an indenter is pressed into a gel to a fixed depth, the solvent in the gel migrates, and
the force on the indenter relaxes. Within the theory of poroelasticity, the force relaxation …