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The brain, explained — reference entries and stories, written and reviewed by people who study it.

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Glial Cells For much of the history of neuroscience, glial cells were treated like… Sodium-Potassium Pump The sodium-potassium pump (also known as the Na+/K+ pump or Na+/K+-ATPase) is… Hypothalamus Group of nuclei that lies just below the thalamus.

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