{"id":86862,"date":"2019-01-20T05:02:30","date_gmt":"2019-01-20T13:02:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/pioneering-brain-study-reveals-software-differences-between-humans-and-monkeys"},"modified":"2019-01-20T05:02:30","modified_gmt":"2019-01-20T13:02:30","slug":"pioneering-brain-study-reveals-software-differences-between-humans-and-monkeys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/pioneering-brain-study-reveals-software-differences-between-humans-and-monkeys","title":{"rendered":"Pioneering brain study reveals \u2018software\u2019 differences between humans and monkeys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/pioneering-brain-study-reveals-software-differences-between-humans-and-monkeys2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Neuroscientists have for the first time discovered differences between the \u2018software\u2019 of humans and monkey brains, using a technique that tracks single neurons.<\/p>\n<p>They found that human brains trade off \u2018robustness\u2019 \u2014 a measure of how synchronized neuron signals are \u2014 for greater efficiency in information processing. The researchers hypothesize that the results might help to explain humans\u2019 unique intelligence, as well as their susceptibility to psychiatric disorders. The findings were published in <i>Cell<\/i> on 17 January.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists say that this type of unusual study could help them to better translate research in animal models of psychiatric diseases into the clinic.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/d41586-019-00198-7\">https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/d41586&#45;019&#45;00198&#45;7<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Neuroscientists have for the first time discovered differences between the \u2018software\u2019 of humans and monkey brains, using a technique that tracks single neurons. They found that human brains trade off \u2018robustness\u2019 \u2014 a measure of how synchronized neuron signals are \u2014 for greater efficiency in information processing. The researchers hypothesize that the results might help [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":501,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86862","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\/501"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86862\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}