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A Grey Anatomy: The Axon
This is the third in a series of occasional postings digger deeper into the brain’s structure and functioning. This one looks at the axon – the central cable-like structure within a neuron that, put simply, passes electrical signals down from … Continue reading
Planes, Brains and Automobiles
At a recent talk, Iain McGilchrist implied that as the human brain had evolved larger and larger, the number of connections in the corpus callosum that connects the left and right hemispheres had decreased in absolute terms. His book, ‘The … Continue reading
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