Highly wired
New brain study finds more synapses in men than in women
Men are dense — in the temporal neocortex anyway.
An investigation of brain tissue recovered from epilepsy patients during surgery showed men had a higher density of brain cell connectors, called synapses, than their female counterparts, researchers report September 8 online in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
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The find might explain why men have better spatial perception, while women better remember what they hear and can talk faster, the researchers suggest.