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Neuron creation in brain’s memory centre stops after childhood

Scientists are already debating whether the findings could overturn 20 years of conventional thought.
  1. Giorgia Guglielmi
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Every day, the human hippocampus, a brain region involved in learning and memory, creates hundreds of new nerve cells — or so scientists thought. Now, results from a study could upend this long-standing idea. A team of researchers has found that the birth of neurons in this region seems to stop once we become adults.

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doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-018-02812-6

See the related News & Views article, 'Questioning human neurogenesis'.

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