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Do the foldings in the brain vary person to person?
Tl;DR: The folding pattern seems consistent among human species but they are not exact match when compared person to person.
Long Answer:
The folding is not random like a crumpled piece of paper. ...
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Can an axon recieve signal from other neuron or axon of other neuron?
There are indeed synapses called axo-axonic or axo-axonal that involve a synapse directly onto an axon from another axon.
There's quite a variety to these, so it's difficult to make any generalizable ...
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Do the foldings in the brain vary person to person?
The major structure is consistent but there is a lot of variation in the details, including the presence and absence of certain gyri:
Kennedy, D. N., Lange, N., Makris, N., Bates, J., Meyer, J., &...
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Does communication with new parts of body requires internal changes in brain?
I think you'd benefit from reading about the concept of "critical periods" - basically, at different times during development, the brain is learning specific tasks, associating sensory ...
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