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Happiness and brain size development – AlKhaleej Today
Happiness and brain size development

The placenta in the ground that supplies the tree of the brain with serotonin and helps the brain to grow. Photo credit: Lei Xing et al., Neuron 2020 / MPI-CBG
During human evolution, the size of the brain increased, particularly in a specific part called the neocortex. The neocortex enables us to speak, dream and think. In search of the causes of the neocortex expansion, researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics in Dresden, together with colleagues from the…
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