While New Years gives us a chance to start fresh, we explore how biology does not. It’s nice and all that the neural nets of the world are creating the best new year’s resolutions for us, their play dough-like (or play dough familiar) counterparts. But, it seems the hormones of the prenatal environment are making some big decisions on our later behavior, governing how much myelin we’re growing. Also, quid nominum geminus?
Links
- Comparison between monochorionic and dichorionic placentas with special attention to vascular anastomoses and placental share (Zhao et al., 2016)
- For technicolor placentas, see figures 1 and 2
- Placental endocrine function shapes cerebellar development and social behavior (Vacher, CM., Lacaille, H., O’Reilly, J.J. et al., 2021)
- Charismatic and Visionary Leaders (Marder, 2021)
- Contextual modulation of pain in masochists: involvement of the parietal operculum and insula (Kamping, S. et al., 2016)
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