5 Things You Didn’t Know About Your Brain

From the placebo effect to neuron generation, your gray matter has surprising superpowers

Brandy L Schillace
Elemental
Published in
6 min readAug 23, 2021

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Photo: David Matos / Unsplash

There’s a lot about the brain we still don’t know. In fact, just this week neuroscientists discovered what they’re calling “zombie” brain cells, which only turn on after you die. (They are glial cells, and they are supposed to clean up the mess…

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Brandy L Schillace
Elemental

(skil-AH-chay) Author in #history, #science, & #medicine. Bylines: SciAm, Globe&Mail, WIRED, WSJ. EIC Medical Humanities. Host of Peculiar Book Club. she/her