Experts discover how the hippocampus might grow new cells throughout life, even in old age. In a Nutshell A new study finds ...

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

For more than six decades, neuroscientists have wrestled with a fundamental question about the human brain: Do adults ...

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

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 ...

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

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, ...

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

UB researchers are taking inspiration from the human brain to develop computing architecture that can support the growing ...

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