How Many Friends Can Your Brain Handle?

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Is the number of friends you have related to your brain? Researchers found that there seems to be a link between a person's brain connectivity and certain brain areas' size with how large that person's social network is. Neuroscientists from Oxford and McGill University found there is a correlation, but which element is dependent on the other? Kim Horcher and Tim Frisch discuss.

Read more from Scientific American: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=how-many-friends-can-your-brain-handle

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brain friends
brain socialization
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friendship biology
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