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Elderly people grow as many new brain cells as young, study finds
Research contradicts decades-old theory that humans stop producing neurons in adulthood
Elderly people grow as many new brain cells as teenagers, according to a new study which counters previous theories that neurons stop developing after adolescence.
Healthy men and women continue to produce new neurons throughout life, suggesting older people remain more cognitively and emotionally intact than previously believed, researchers found.
For decades it was thought that adult brains were hard-wired and unable to form new cells.
Healthy men and women continue to produce new neurons throughout life, suggesting older people remain more cognitively and emotionally intact than previously believed, researchers found.
But a Columbia University study found older people continued to produce neurons in the hippocampus – a part of the brain important for memory, emotion and cognition – at a similar rate to young people.
Researchers examined the brains of 28 previously healthy people who died suddenly between the age of 14 and 79.
The ability to generate new hippocampal cells, a process known as neurogenesis, declines with age in rodents and primates.
Declining production of neurons and shrinkage of parts of the brain which help form of new episodic memories were believed to occur in ageing humans as well, explaining why younger people find it easier to learn skills and languages.
But the Columbia University study found similar numbers of newly formed cells in old and young brains.
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