{"id":143670,"date":"2022-08-06T02:23:11","date_gmt":"2022-08-06T07:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/scientists-find-a-key-brain-difference-between-primates-and-other-animals"},"modified":"2022-08-06T02:23:11","modified_gmt":"2022-08-06T07:23:11","slug":"scientists-find-a-key-brain-difference-between-primates-and-other-animals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/scientists-find-a-key-brain-difference-between-primates-and-other-animals","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Find a Key Brain Difference Between Primates and Other Animals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-find-a-key-brain-difference-between-primates-and-other-animals2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A multinational research team has now been able to increase their understanding of species-specific variations in the architecture of cortical neurons thanks to high-resolution microscopy.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers from the Developmental Neurobiology research group at <a href=https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/tag\/ruhr-university-bochum\/>Ruhr-Universit\u00e4t Bochum,<\/a> led by Professor Petra Wahle, have demonstrated that primates and non-primates differ in an important aspect of their architecture: the origin of the axon, which is the process responsible for the transmission of electrical signals known as action potentials. The results were recently published in the journal <em>eLife.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A multinational research team has now been able to increase their understanding of species-specific variations in the architecture of cortical neurons thanks to high-resolution microscopy. Researchers from the Developmental Neurobiology research group at Ruhr-Universit\u00e4t Bochum, led by Professor Petra Wahle, have demonstrated that primates and non-primates differ in an important aspect of their architecture: the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143670\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}