{"id":76697,"date":"2018-03-09T10:03:12","date_gmt":"2018-03-09T18:03:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/scientists-claiming-theres-no-brain-growth-after-age-13-spark-fiery-debate"},"modified":"2018-03-12T12:10:27","modified_gmt":"2018-03-12T19:10:27","slug":"scientists-claiming-theres-no-brain-growth-after-age-13-spark-fiery-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/scientists-claiming-theres-no-brain-growth-after-age-13-spark-fiery-debate","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Claiming There\u2019s No Brain Growth After Age 13 Spark Fiery Debate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-claiming-theres-no-brain-growth-after-age-13-spark-fiery-debate2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s hard for us to accept the idea that the brain stops growing, despite the large body of scientific evidence supporting this idea. The often-repeated statistic, based on years of research, is that the brain stops developing around the age of 25. More recently, an international team of neuroscientists argued in <em>Nature<\/em> that the human brain stops producing new neurons at age <em>13<\/em>. The response from the scientific community to this most recent study has been significant, to say the least.<\/p>\n<p>In their <a href=\"http:\/\/rdcu.be\/ICEU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">paper<\/a>, published Wednesday, the researchers write that their findings \u201cdo not support the notion that robust adult neurogenesis continues in the human hippocampus.\u201d In other words, none of the hippocampus tissue samples from adult brains they examined showed evidence of new neurons. Infants\u2019 brains grow lots of new neurons, they report, and older children\u2019s brains slow down a little. Meanwhile, none of their adult samples showed evidence of new neurons. And this is what other scientists don\u2019t agree with.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey may just not have looked carefully enough,\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmb.ki.se\/research\/frisen\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jonas Fris\u00e9n, Ph.D.<\/a>, of the Karolinska Institute in Sweden, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2018\/03\/07\/adult-brains-neurogenesis\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told <em>STAT News<\/em><\/a> on Wednesday. Fris\u00e9n co-authored a paper in 2015 that contradicts the findings of the <em>Nature<\/em> paper. And Fris\u00e9n isn\u2019t the only one who thinks these researchers\u2019 conclusion may be premature.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inverse.com\/article\/42067-when-does-the-brain-stop-growing\">https:\/\/www.inverse.com\/article\/42067-when-does-the-brain-stop-growing<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s hard for us to accept the idea that the brain stops growing, despite the large body of scientific evidence supporting this idea. The often-repeated statistic, based on years of research, is that the brain stops developing around the age of 25. More recently, an international team of neuroscientists argued in Nature that the human [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76697","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76697"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76802,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76697\/revisions\/76802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}