Brain Cells Found In Monkeys That May Be Linked To Self-Awareness And Empathy In Humans

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<p>The maiden close-knit cortex is a tiny mind segment that plays a essential purpose in tellurian self-awareness and in associated neuropsychiatric disorders. A singular dungeon form a von Economo neuron (VEN) is located there. For a prolonged time, a VEN was insincere to be singular to humans, good apes, whales and elephants. Henry Evrard, neuroanatomist during a Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics in Tübingen, Germany, now detected that a VEN occurs also in a insula of macaque monkeys. The morphology, distance and placement of a gorilla VEN advise that it is during slightest a primal anatomical homolog of a tellurian VEN. This anticipating ...