Somatic nuclear mitochondrial DNA insertions are prevalent in the human brain and accumulate over time in fibroblasts

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Parts of the human brain grow dramatically during birth, according to a first-of-its-kind study. Researchers looked at more than 180 brain images from 140 foetuses and babies aged between 25 and 55 weeks after conception, and studied changes in different regions of the brain.

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Researchers have identified more than 700 neurons in the human brain. These cells are involved in “social inference,” our ability to read cues from other people’s body language and expressions to draw conclusions about what they are feeling or thinking

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The human brain ages less than thought 🧠 and in layers 📊 – at least in the area of the cerebral cortex responsible for the sense of touch ✋.

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Scientists have identified a genetic switch, HAR123, that shapes cognitive flexibility 🧠✨ and which may ultimately be the key 🔑 to the human brain’s unique abilities.

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Evolution may have capped human brain size to balance energy costs and survival 🧠⚖️💡

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New State-Of-The-Art 7 Tesla MRI 🧠 Reveals How the Human Brain Anticipates and Regulates the Body’s Needs ⚖️

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Scientists have identified five major “epochs” of human brain development 🧠 in one of the most comprehensive studies to date of how neural wiring changes from infancy to old age. In a person’s early 30s the brain’s neural wiring shifts into adult mode – the longest era, lasting more than three decades ⏳.

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🧠 Language & Empathy: Separate Brain Origins
New research, published April 23 in Communications Biology, suggests that two core human abilities – understanding language and sensing others' emotions (theory of mind) – develop from distinct brain regions, not overlapping ones, even in young children.

🧠 Early Brain Architecture for Cognition
The study, led by Kelly Hiersche and involving 42 children aged 3-9, used fMRI scans to show these cognitive functions are architecturally separate from the start, challenging prior theories of shared origins that become more distinct over time.

🧠 Stable Connectivity, Unique Functions
Researchers observed that the brain regions responsible for language (left superior temporal lobe) and theory of mind (right superior temporal lobe) have unique "connectivity fingerprints," meaning how they communicate with other brain areas is distinct and stable throughout childhood development.

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Human brain is two separate organs: what we call the brain is two distinct organs that evolved independently over hundreds of millions of years, finds new research based on mouse embryos, human pluripotent stem cells and evolutionary biology.

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