Scientists may have finally explained why our brains and bodies are cross-wired

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Why does the left side of the brain control the right side of the body, while the right side controls the left? This unusual arrangement is one of the most intriguing features of the nervous system, and scientists have proposed a new explanation that reaches back hundreds of millions of years.

Dr. Martin Wessendorf, a neuroscientist and associate professor emeritus at the University of Minnesota, studies how the brainstem regulates neurons in the spinal cord. ...

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