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Though it's now clear humans continue to grow new brain cells throughout their entire lives, debate persists over whether ...

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Fatty diets and obesity affect the structure and function of astrocytes, the star-shaped brain cells located in the striatum, ...

Research shows that neurogenesis, collateral sprouting, synaptogenesis, exercise, and an enriched complex housing environment ...

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

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

Scientists discovered that the brain keeps making new neurons even in adulthood, offering hope for brain health treatments.

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

The results of experiments in mice models were "astounding," said biochemist Suzanne Pfeffer of Stanford University.

Humming can ease stress and promote relaxation by stimulating the vagus nerve, a complex network of over 200,000 fibers that ...

An interaction between two proteins points to a molecular basis for memory. But how do memories last when the molecules that ...