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Even old brains can make new neurons, study suggests
In the hippocampus, a critical brain region for learning and memory, new cells emerge in some people into late adulthood, according to a study published July 3 in the journal Science. The findings tip the scales in a still-active debate over how our brains continue to develop throughout life.
Researchers at the Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute at Columbia University discovered that hippocampal place cells in ...
The brain is constantly mapping the external world like a GPS, even when we don't know about it. This activity comes in the form of tiny electrical signals sent between neurons—specialized cells that ...
A key feature that appears to facilitate neuroplasticity is the distinct nature of neurons compared to other cells.
Thanks to a team at the University of California, Davis, there's a new brain-computer interface (BCI) system that's opening ...
Antidepressants have strong impact on male brains — with the nature of the impact depending on the age of the subject — but ...
Once in the hippocampus, memories and learning can be transmitted to different parts of the brain and retrieved whenever ...
Researchers have now shown that, despite individual differences in neuron activity, a shared underlying structure guides the ...
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