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All episodes posted after January 1, 2013, are free. New episodes of the Brain Science Podcast are ALWAYS FREE. Premium Subscribers have unlimited access to ALL old episodes and transcripts. It combines a first hand account of how science is really done with an excellent over view of important new ideas. Average number of neurons in the brain 86 billion (Frederico Azevedo et al. This book follows the tradition of books like Eric Kandel's In Search of Memory. A Quantitative Handbook, New York: Plenum Press, 1968. It also does away with the persistent myth that humans still have a deeply embedded reptilian brain. The Human Advantage debunks several well worn neuroscientific dogmas including the idea that the human brain is too large. Brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) promotes the survival and functioning of neurons in the central nervous system and contributes to proper functioning of many non-neural tissues.

Primate brains contain more neurons that a similarly sized rodent brain. One of its most important characteristics is its ability to learn. Herculano-Houzel has shown that primate brains are built differently than the so-called 'generic' mammalian brain. The human brain is the most complicated organ that nature has ever created: 100 billion nerve cells and many more contact points between them provide our brain with capabilities that no supercomputer can match to this day. While some neuroscientists, such as Cristof Koch, may discount the importance of how many neurons the brain contains, this still rates as an extremely important technique that also has implications for other long held assumptions such as the idea that all brains are made the same.

How many neurons are in the human brain