Actually, I still find these sorts of results very surprising. Till recently, I always thought that once one was an adult, one's brain lost its self-renewal ca

Actually, I still find these sorts of results very surprising. Till recently, I always thought that once one was an adult, one's brain lost its self-renewal capacity, and that progressive mental decline was inevitable. This was the general scientific view as well. [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroplasticity http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroplasticity ]