{"id":217150,"date":"2025-07-03T22:10:57","date_gmt":"2025-07-04T03:10:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/new-neurons-continue-to-form-in-the-adult-human-hippocampus-study"},"modified":"2025-07-03T22:10:57","modified_gmt":"2025-07-04T03:10:57","slug":"new-neurons-continue-to-form-in-the-adult-human-hippocampus-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/new-neurons-continue-to-form-in-the-adult-human-hippocampus-study","title":{"rendered":"New neurons continue to form in the adult human hippocampus: Study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-neurons-continue-to-form-in-the-adult-human-hippocampus-study2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A study in the journal <i>Science<\/i> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/doi\/10.1126\/science.adu9575\" target=\"_blank\">presents<\/a> compelling new evidence that neurons in the brain\u2019s memory center, the hippocampus, continue to form well into late adulthood. The research from Karolinska Institutet in Sweden provides answers to a fundamental and long-debated question about the human brain\u2019s adaptability.<\/p>\n<p>The hippocampus is a brain region that is essential for learning and memory and involved in emotion regulation. Back in 2013, Jonas Fris\u00e9n\u2019s research group at Karolinska Institutet showed in a high-profile study that <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/new+neurons\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">new neurons<\/a> can form in the hippocampus of adult humans. The researchers then measured carbon-14 levels in DNA from <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/brain+tissue\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">brain tissue<\/a>, which made it possible to determine when the cells were formed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A study in the journal Science presents compelling new evidence that neurons in the brain\u2019s memory center, the hippocampus, continue to form well into late adulthood. The research from Karolinska Institutet in Sweden provides answers to a fundamental and long-debated question about the human brain\u2019s adaptability. The hippocampus is a brain region that is essential [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217150","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=217150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217150\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}