For decades, scientists have argued over one of neuroscience’s most fundamental questions: Can the adult human brain grow new ...

Researchers from Sweden have discovered that the human brain continues to grow new cells in the memory region—called the ...

Researchers have created over 400 distinct types of human nerve cells in vitro, vastly expanding the diversity available for ...

The human brain is made up of billions of nerve cells (neurons) that communicate with each other in vast, interconnected ...

While comparing neurons and transistors is a convenient metaphor (and not completely out of left field), the brain is ...

A new study reveals that neurons in the brain’s memory center, the hippocampus, continue to form well into late adulthood. A ...

A groundbreaking study from Sweden’s Karolinska Institutet reveals that the human brain continues to grow new neurons even ...

Swedish researchers at Karolinska Institutet have discovered that the human hippocampus continues to produce new neurons ...

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

Scientists at the Salk Institute have uncovered how a cluster of thalamic neurons links physical pain to emotional trauma, ...

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