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“The posterior hippocampi of taxi drivers were significantly larger relative to those of control subjects,” she wrote in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. And the size, she ...

Women who described their childbirth experience as stressful or difficult also had larger hippocampi, a brain region that helps regulate emotions. “It might be that those persons whose amygdala is ...