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What Makes A Human Brain Unique? A Newly Discovered Neuron May Be A Clue

The human brain isn't just bigger than a mouse brain. It contains at least one kind of brain cell that isn't found in rodents.
An image of a rosehip neuron (top) and a connecting pyramidal cell (bottom).

Scientists have taken another step toward understanding what makes the human brain unique.

An international team has identified a kind of brain cell that exists in people but not mice, the team reported Monday in the journal Nature Neuroscience.

"This particular type of cell had properties that had never actually been described in another species," says , one of the study's authors and anin Seattle.

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