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The battle over new nerve cells in adult brains intensifies
- dcx 8y agoThe fact that we still don't know whether or not adult brains produce new neurons is incredible to me. It feels like we know so much as a species. But at the same time we're all just wandering around in these poorly-understood meat suits.
- Teknoman117 8y agoand the question is, are we meat suits or are we driving meat suits...
- andrewflnr 8y agoFor a given phenomenon that's at least logically consistent, the egg tends to end up on the faces of people who said it was impossible.
- Retric 8y agoYou rarely hear about the 99% of the rime when the experts where correct.
- andrewflnr 8y agoFair point in general. However, in most cases where the debate hits the public because there are experts on both sides, I'd say it still holds.
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- nitwit005 8y agoThis is experts debating other experts. One, or possibly both, sets of experts have to be wrong.
- Retric 8y agoNobody is an expert on this topic, which is why they are doing basic research. They are experts on doing brain research, and differences in how they approach things might be relevant.
- nitwit005 8y agoYou went from the experts are almost always right, to insisting there are no experts.
- Retric 8y agoTheir are plenty of experts for other things. But being an expert requires more than simply running an experiment. Each experiment is more like a clue than definitive proof. So, having a mix of positive and negative results is not some major contradiction, it’s just part of gathering knowledge.
- softwaredoug 8y agoProps to Sciencenews.org. The articles are interesting. The pages load fast. And lots of meaty references to backup the claims. Will subscribe
- StanislavPetrov 8y agoEvidence for neurogenesis is more convincing than the arguments against it. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4543605/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4543605/
- starbeast 8y agoCan someone tell me a mechanism that would fundamentally halt the production of new neurons in adult brains? If you can't define that edge well, then it would seem very likely that new neurons do form in adult brains, given the scale of neuron to brain, even if many fewer of them do in comparison.