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> neural regrowth I didn't know this was possible. Is it ?

• bitwize 10y ago
  It was only recently discovered that healthy brains regrow neurons all the time.
  • GunlogAlm 10y ago
    Not throughout the brain. It's only known to occur in two regions, the dentate gyrus and a part of the subventricular zone.
• adambmedia 10y ago
  You're talking about neurogenesis via progenitor cells and neural stem cells. Evidence was there for several decades but anyone that touched the subject was essentially blacklisted from the neuroscience community. At MIT, they would talk about how Kaplan was denied tenure and basically kicked out of his university because of his lab's controversial focus on neurogenesis. Kaplan feels similarly. Here's his personal account entitled: death of a dogma and a research career. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11576677 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11576677