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Research on dual origins of the human brain

Overview

Researchers from Stanford Medicine have proposed that the human brain may be a composite organ formed by the fusion of two independent nervous systems.

According to a study published in Nature Neuroscience, the forebrain and midbrain derive from an anterior neural ectoderm stem cell, whereas the hindbrain originates from a separate posterior neural ectoderm stem cell. This findings challenge the previous scientific consensus that the entire nervous system developed from a single common neuroectoderm stem cell.

The research suggests that these two lineages do not overlap, implying that primitive brain regions regulating autonomic functions and more recently evolved regions enabling higher cognitive functions emerged from distinct precursor cells during embryonic development before merging into a single integrated organ.

Entities

RIKEN · Nature Plants · Stanford Medicine · National Institute for Basic Biology · Arabidopsis thaliana

Timeline

  1. [HEALTH] 2 sources
    Stanford researchers find brain may be a composite of two organs

    New research published in Nature Neuroscience suggests the brain is a composite organ formed by two distinct evolutionary lineages of neural stem cells.

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kurir.rs · logicno.com · monitor.hr · sciencebasedmedicine.org · watson.ch