{"id":86593,"date":"2019-01-10T12:42:37","date_gmt":"2019-01-10T20:42:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/old-people-can-produce-as-many-new-brain-cells-as-teenagers"},"modified":"2019-01-10T12:42:37","modified_gmt":"2019-01-10T20:42:37","slug":"old-people-can-produce-as-many-new-brain-cells-as-teenagers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/old-people-can-produce-as-many-new-brain-cells-as-teenagers","title":{"rendered":"Old people can produce as many new brain cells as teenagers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/old-people-can-produce-as-many-new-brain-cells-as-teenagers.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>By Helen Thomson<\/p>\n<p>Old age may have its downsides, but losing the ability to grow new brain cells isn\u2019t one: healthy people in their seventies seem to produce just as many new neurons as teenagers.<\/p>\n<p>The discovery overturns a decades-old theory about how our brains age and could provide clues as to how we can keep our minds sharper for longer.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2165707-old-people-can-produce-as-many-new-brain-cells-as-teenagers\/amp\/\">https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2165707-old-people-can-...agers\/amp\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Helen Thomson Old age may have its downsides, but losing the ability to grow new brain cells isn\u2019t one: healthy people in their seventies seem to produce just as many new neurons as teenagers. The discovery overturns a decades-old theory about how our brains age and could provide clues as to how we can [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":502,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86593","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\/502"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86593\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}