Strange new types of cells keep coming to light in the human brain. By the latest count, there are more than 3300, and we don’t even know what most of them do
IT IS strange to think that we still don’t know what our brains are made of. Yet, despite decades of research and the development of high-tech scanning techniques, that is the truth. Sure, we know the basics. The average human brain weighs approximately 1.4 kilograms and has the consistency of soft tofu. It is made up of two general cell types: neurons, which do the thinking, and glia, which support them.
Everyone knows neurons, the cells that send electrical impulses between different areas of the brain. Your brain contains around 86 billion of them and they come in many different varieties depending on their shape, function and properties. But there is still a lot we don’t know about them. Take, which were discovered in 2018. Named for their shape, the cells seem to damp down the electrical activity of other neurons.
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