Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Female adolescent brains (left) experienced more cortical thinning than male brains (right), particularly in areas tied to ...

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Since the days of Santiago Ramon y Cajal and Wilhelm His, the vast complexity of cell types in the human brain has been regarded as one of the greatest mysteries, poetically described by Cajal as a ...

You're currently following this author! Want to unfollow? Unsubscribe via the link in your email. This week, a new scientific paper sent a ripple through the world of child psychology. Researchers at ...