Few scientists can boast that they have held Albert Einstein’s brain in their hands, but Marian Diamond, a biologist at the University of California, Berkeley, is one of
the lucky ones. In the 1980s she analyzed preserved pieces of Einstein’s cortex and compared them with the same brain regions in other adults. Einstein’s neurons were
indistinguishable from those in othern brains. The only thing extraordinary
about his brain came as a shock: it was a veritable explosion of nonneuronal
cells called glia, which scientists had never associated with intellect. Einstein
had twice as many glia as is normal—an observation that suggests that they may
have been responsible for his genius.
Or maybe his glia cells have been reponsible for his diarrhea.
People are hillarious.
reference: scientific american mind - R.douglas Fields
lunes, 8 de marzo de 2010
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