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People with big brains have a different brain structure too

If you have a large brain, certain regions are much bigger than expected and others are smaller – but we don’t know how this affects brain function yet

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Walter Pitts

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How a frog’s eye robbed us of a genius’s AI masterwork

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Brains grow brand new neurons after experimental drug injection

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A fetus in the womb

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Faulty placenta may explain why some people get schizophrenia

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Chimp evolution was shaped by sex with their bonobo relatives

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Chimp evolution was shaped by sex with their bonobo relatives

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A brain implant

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Brain implant for OCD surprisingly helps alleviate diabetes too

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We may have got the evolution of our big brains entirely wrong

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We may have got the evolution of our big brains entirely wrong

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World's most-spoken languages may have arisen in ancient Iran

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World's most-spoken languages may have arisen in ancient Iran

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Eye

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Minimally conscious people woken with brain zap by their family

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An umbillical cord

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Blood from umbilical cord may help fix your brain after a stroke

Ten people have received infusions of umbilical cord blood days after having a stroke, and they seem to have recovered better than would normally be expected

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Aha! What happens in your brain when you have a lightbulb moment

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The woman who laughs uncontrollably when others get tickled

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Humans

People adapted to the cold and got more migraines as a result

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Swirling wall of moving patterns represents our thoughts

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