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Where does the controversial finding that adult human brains don't grow new neurons leave ongoing research?

  • Written by Janice R. Naegele, Alan M Dachs Professor of Science, Professor of Biology, Neuroscience and Behavior, Wesleyan University
Where does the controversial finding that adult human brains don't grow new neurons leave ongoing research?Could it be that a baby has all the brain cells she ever will?Jv Garcia on Unsplash, CC BY

Scientists have known for about two decades that some neurons – the fundamental cells in the brain that transmit signals – are generated throughout life. But now a controversial new study from the University of California, San Francisco, casts...

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