Traumatic head injury can have widespread effects in the brain, but now scientists can look in real time at how head injury affects thousands of individual cells and genes simultaneously in mice. This approach could lead to precise treatments for traumatic brain injury (TBI). The study, which reported in Nature Communications, was supported by the… Continue reading Scientists Can Now Study Thousands of Individual Brain Cells
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Older Adults Grow Just as Many New Brain Cells as Young People Do
Researchers have shown for the first time that healthy older men and women can generate just as many new brain cells as younger people do. The study appeared in the journal Cell Stem Cell on April 5th 2018, There has been controversy over whether adult humans grow new neurons, and some research has previously suggested… Continue reading Older Adults Grow Just as Many New Brain Cells as Young People Do