One highlighted line is important because it implies that as soon as you get new neurons via neurogenesis you need to somehow incorporate them into your learning process (ie. use them). I'm sure your doctor has no clue how this can be accomplished so you'll have to teach them.
http://www.biosciencetechnology.com/news/2014/05/learning-early-life-may-help-keep-brain-cells-alive?
Using your brain – particularly
during adolescence – may help brain cells survive and could impact how
the brain functions after puberty.
According to a recently published study in Frontiers in Neuroscience,
Rutgers behavioral and systems neuroscientist Tracey Shors, who
co-authored the study, found that the newborn brain cells in young rats
that were successful at learning survived while the same brain cells in
animals that didn’t master the task died quickly.
“In those that didn’t learn, three weeks after the new brain cells
were made, nearly one-half of them were no longer there,” said Shors,
professor in the Department of Psychology and Center for Collaborative
Neuroscience at Rutgers. “But in those that learned, it was hard to
count. There were so many that were still alive.”
The study is important, Shors says, because it suggests that the
massive proliferation of new brain cells most likely helps young animals
leave the protectiveness of their mothers and face dangers, challenges
and opportunities of adulthood.
Scientists have known for years that the neurons in adult rats, which
are significant but fewer in numbers than during puberty, could be
saved with learning, but they did not know if this would be the case for
young rats that produce two to four times more neurons than adult
animals.
By examining the hippocampus – a portion of the brain associated with
the process of learning – after the rats learned to associate a sound
with a motor response, scientists found that the new brain cells
injected with dye a few weeks earlier were still alive in those that had
learned the task while the cells in those who had failed did not
survive.
“It’s not that learning makes more cells,” says Shors. “It’s that the
process of learning keeps new cells alive that are already present at
the time of the learning experience.”
Since the process of producing new brain cells on a cellular level is
similar in animals, including humans, Shors says ensuring that
adolescent children learn at optimal levels is critical.
“What it has shown me, especially as an educator, is how difficult
it is to achieve optimal learning for our students. You don’t want the
material to be too easy to learn and yet still have it too difficult
where the student doesn’t learn and gives up,” Shors says.
So, what does this mean for the 12-year-old adolescent boy or girl?
While scientists can’t measure individual brain cells in humans,
Shors says this study, on the cellular level, provides a look at what is
happening in the adolescent brain and provides a window into the
amazing ability the brain has to reorganize itself and form new neural
connections at such a transformational time in our lives.
“Adolescents are trying to figure out who they are now, who they want
to be when they grow up and are at school in a learning environment all
day long,” says Shors. "The brain has to have a lot of strength to
respond to all those experiences.”
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