Study: Contrasting Brain Growth in Baby Humans and Baby Chimpanzees

Chart­ing Brain Growth in Humans and Chimps (New York Times): — “Although baby humans and baby chim­panzees both start out with unde­vel­oped fore­brains, a new study reports that the human brain increas­es in vol­ume much more rapid­ly ear­ly on.” — “The growth is in a region of the brain known as the pre­frontal cor­tex and is part…

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What do Medicine, HR, Green living, Videogames, and Genes have in common…

…that understanding how our brains and minds work may con­tribute to all of them. Here you have some of the best blog car­ni­vals (col­lec­tions of blog posts on spe­cif­ic top­ics) we have con­tributed to this week: Grand Rounds: “brain exer­cise” is as impor­tant as nutri­tion, phys­i­cal exer­cise and stress man­age­ment. Green Liv­ing: let’s start the con­ver­sa­tion about “sus­tain­able brains”.…

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