{"id":174219,"date":"2023-10-14T20:23:33","date_gmt":"2023-10-15T01:23:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/baby-neurons-in-adult-brains-are-needed-to-maintain-memory"},"modified":"2023-10-14T20:23:33","modified_gmt":"2023-10-15T01:23:33","slug":"baby-neurons-in-adult-brains-are-needed-to-maintain-memory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/baby-neurons-in-adult-brains-are-needed-to-maintain-memory","title":{"rendered":"Baby neurons in adult brains are needed to maintain memory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/baby-neurons-in-adult-brains-are-needed-to-maintain-memory2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A quarter-century ago, researchers discovered that adults, not just developing infants, can generate new brain cells, a process called neurogenesis. But it\u2019s still not clear what role these new neurons play in health or disease.<\/p>\n<p>In a new mouse study, Columbia University researchers found that neurogenesis in adults is critical for maintaining <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/brain+circuits\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">brain circuits<\/a> that support working <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/memory\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">memory<\/a> across the lifespan and chronic loss of adult neurogenesis causes <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/progressive+memory+loss\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">progressive memory loss<\/a>, like that seen in age-related cognitive decline and Alzheimer\u2019s disease in humans.<\/p>\n<p>The study, \u201cAdult-born neurons maintain hippocampal cholinergic inputs and support working memory during aging,\u201d was published in July in the journal Molecular Psychiatry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A quarter-century ago, researchers discovered that adults, not just developing infants, can generate new brain cells, a process called neurogenesis. But it\u2019s still not clear what role these new neurons play in health or disease. In a new mouse study, Columbia University researchers found that neurogenesis in adults is critical for maintaining brain circuits that [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,269,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-174219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-life-extension","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174219\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}