Primate versus mouse neurons (IMAGE)

University of Chicago Medical Center

Primate versus mouse neurons

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New research has found that adult primate neurons (left) have two to five times fewer synapses in the visual cortex compared to mice (right).

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Image from Wildenberg et al.

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