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Winter fight of two Striped Field Mice (Apodemus agrarius) in the snow. Moscow park, Russia.

Sex and aggression linked in male mouse brains but not in female

18 September 2017

In male mice, the same brain cells influence both aggressive and sexual behaviours, but for the first time we now know that's not the case for females
A centre in France for people with visual impairment

Blind people repurpose the brain's visual areas for language

18 September 2017

For the first time, language processing has been detected in areas of the brain that usually process vision, highlighting the organ’s extraordinary flexibility

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