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How much do you know about neuroscience?

Santiago Ramón y Cajal, the neuron explorer

He coined the neural theory in which the nervous system was a succession of cells that communicated with each other, but were physically separated from each other.

They design a 'memory prosthesis' to restore memories

These are electrodes that are inserted into the brain and mimic what the hippocampus does naturally. It works better in people with poor memory.

A small genetic mutation made us smarter than Neanderthals

This is what made us so different from Neanderthals. A subtle change in a single gene gave us the advantage.

The human brain did not shrink 3,000 years ago

A recent study shatters the theory of evolution. The work bucks the widely held belief that modern humans experienced an evolutionary decline in brain size. According to experts, the size of the human brain has not changed in probably 300,000 years.

The mysterious world of phobias

Phobias are a type of psychological alteration where the causes that trigger the crises (the moments in which their symptoms are most noticeable) are very diverse and, in some cases, curious or simply strange.

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