BS 133 Counting Neurons with Dr. Suzana Herculano-Houzel

How many neurons does the typical human brain contain? The
oft-quoted number of 100 billion turns out to have been a guess
that was wrong! By a lot! Dr. Suzana Herculano-Houzel is the
Brazilian neuroscientist who developed a revolutionary new
technique for accurately counting the neurons in brains of all
sizes. She shocked the scientific community when she determined
that the average human brain contains only 86 billion neurons,
but we still have more neurons in our cerebral cortex than any
other species. Learn what all this means in Brain Science 133.


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