Smart People Have Better Connected Brains
Differences in intelligence have so far mostly been attributed to differences in specific brain regions. However, are smart people’s brains also wired differently to those of less intelligent persons? A new study supports this assumption. In intelligent persons, certain brain regions are more strongly involved in the flow of information between brain regions, while other […]
How Our Brains Learn to Recognize Faces
Scientists have long deemed the ability to recognize faces innate for people and other primates — something our brains just know how to do immediately from birth. However, the findings of a new study cast doubt on this longstanding view. However, the findings of a new Harvard Medical School study published Sept. 4 in the […]
New Source for Brain’s Development Discovered
TEHRAN – An unexpected source for the brain’s development has been discovered by researchers, a finding that offers new insights into the building of the nervous system. The research, which appears in the journal Science, discovered that glia, a collection of non-neuronal cells that had long been regarded as passive support cells, in fact are […]