Einstein's Brain, Einstein's Glia

ByCarl Zimmer
June 02, 2010

NPR’s Jon Hamilton has a nice piece on Einstein’s brain, and what might have made it special. The difference doesn’t seem to have to do with its neurons, but with the other cells of the brain, the glia. I wrote about the glia–what I called the dark matter of the brain–in this Discover column last fallthis Discover column last fallthis Discover column last fall.

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