{"id":87005,"date":"2019-01-24T17:44:27","date_gmt":"2019-01-25T01:44:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/neuroscientists-may-finally-know-whether-the-adult-brain-can-grow-new-cells"},"modified":"2019-01-24T17:44:27","modified_gmt":"2019-01-25T01:44:27","slug":"neuroscientists-may-finally-know-whether-the-adult-brain-can-grow-new-cells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/neuroscientists-may-finally-know-whether-the-adult-brain-can-grow-new-cells","title":{"rendered":"Neuroscientists May Finally Know Whether the Adult Brain Can Grow New Cells"},"content":{"rendered":"

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In the new paper, Jason Snyder, Ph.D.<\/a>, a University of British Columbia behavioral neuroscientist, argues that if you take a close look at all the studies on animals from mice to humans, the facts are quite clear: Animals probably don\u2019t<\/em> develop significant amounts of new brain cells as we enter adulthood. There\u2019s still hope for some neurogenesis, but not a huge amount.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn some respects, it\u2019s just one of the things that humanity has always hoped for \u2014 staying young,\u201d he tells Inverse<\/em>. \u201cSo I think it\u2019s been disconcerting that there might not be as many of these young cells that are malleable, that are adaptive, that are capable of learning earlier in life. Of course we want those things to be there, but I think that introduces some bias.\u201d<\/p>\n

To be clear, Snyder doesn\u2019t argue that the field is biased. Instead, his argument is based on the analysis of past studies that have looked into this topic in humans, primates, and mice. There he admits that there\u2019s been some confusion \u2014 some studies seem to show that the brain can continue to develop new cells later in life, while others show that it can\u2019t. Specifically, he says that it\u2019s been hard to let go of the idea of neurogenesis because of the results of animal studies (many on mice) \u201cdemonstrating persistent neurogenesis throughout life.\u201d<\/p>\n

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In the new paper, Jason Snyder, Ph.D., a University of British Columbia behavioral neuroscientist, argues that if you take a close look at all the studies on animals from mice to humans, the facts are quite clear: Animals probably don\u2019t develop significant amounts of new brain cells as we enter adulthood. There\u2019s still hope for [\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-87005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87005","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=87005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87005\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}