Adult Neurogenesis

For more than a century, medical science firmly believed that our brain could not repair itself and that we were born with all the brain cells we would ever have. That belief has changed. Over the last 20 years, research has shown that neurogenesis, the creation of new brain cells, actually occurs in the adult human. Currently, work is shifting to find out where neurogenesis happens, how it happens, why it happens, and, more importantly, how it might help the brain heal itself. .../...

Already research has:

• Identified areas of the brain where neurogenesis is evident.
• Discovered the processes that may promote or inhibit neurogenesis.
• Offered a glimpse of how new neurons may assimilate into the working brain.

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