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"after all" is pretty misleading (edit: clickbaity?) for 2019. adult neurogenesis has been known since 2009.
by modzu 8y ago
"after all" is pretty misleading (edit: clickbaity?) for 2019. adult neurogenesis has been known since 2009.
- mdorazio 8y agoFTA: "A growing body of research suggested they could, but then a Nature paper[1] last year raised doubts." [1] https://www.nature.com/articles/nature25975 https://www.nature.com/articles/nature25975 "Human hippocampal neurogenesis drops sharply in children to undetectable levels in adults"
- modzu 8y agothanks for this, explains the context. still, "a growing body of reseach" vs "a nature paper last year"?
- superkuh 8y agoIt's not just that paper. There are many papers from many groups that have failed to detect neurogenesis in the dentate gyrus of adult humans. Even groups who's work is based on trying to find it have concluded it probably doesn't happen. They did not want that result.
- abainbridge 8y agoLooks like Wikipedia has a summary of the history that might be useful to the lay person (like me): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adult_neurogenesis#History https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adult_neurogenesis#History
- bluetwo 8y agoThe take-away for me seemed to be that methods of preservation and preparation were destroying these cells, leading to a situation where scientists suspected they didn't exist. This seems to explain why that situation happened, nothing more.