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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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Humans
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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Faulty placenta may explain why some people get schizophrenia
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Environment
Chimp evolution was shaped by sex with their bonobo relatives
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Brain implant for OCD surprisingly helps alleviate diabetes too
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Environment
We may have got the evolution of our big brains entirely wrong
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Humans
World’s most-spoken languages may have arisen in ancient Iran
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Minimally conscious people woken with brain zap by their family
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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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Humans
Aha! What happens in your brain when you have a lightbulb moment
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Humans
The woman who laughs uncontrollably when others get tickled
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People adapted to the cold and got more migraines as a result
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Humans
Elements of surprise: What fiction plots tell us about our minds
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