Researchers from Sweden have discovered that the human brain continues to grow new cells in the memory region—called the hippocampus—even into old age. Using advanced tools to examine brain samples ...

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Scientists say they have very strong evidence that the adult human brain is capable of making new neurons, a point of ongoing controversy in neuroscience.

After years of debate, scientists provided new evidence for the lifelong birth of human brain cells, which may inform future ...

The team suspects that neurogenesis happens in other parts of the adult brain, too. In mice, new neurons are regularly made ...

In the hippocampus, a critical brain region for learning and memory, new cells emerge in some people into late adulthood, ...

Scientists have found evidence of new brain cells sprouting in adults - a process that many thought only occurred in children ...

A study in the journal Science presents compelling new evidence that neurons in the brain's memory center, the hippocampus, ...

UC Berkeley political scientist Marika Landau-Wells says there are ways to help us avoid overreacting to false alarms without missing real threats.

Tiny, shallow grooves on the surface of the brain may provide new insight into how aging and Alzheimer’s disease affect brain ...

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