Study finds a difference between neurons of humans and other mammals
>They were able to obtain brain tissue from 10 mammalian species: Etruscan shrews (one of the smallest known mammals), gerbils, mice, rats, Guinea pigs, ferrets, rabbits, marmosets, and macaques, as well as human tissue removed from <i>patients with epilepsy</i> during brain surgery.<p>Offbeat question: Could it be that epilepsy is a disorder caused by this missing ion channel, and this isn't true for all humans?