Saturday, May 14, 2011

Use it or lose it: How neurogenesis keeps the brain fit

A 40 page accepted manuscript in
Behavioural Brain Research
I like these two points, hope someone researches them:

http://people.psych.cornell.edu/~jec7/pcd%20pubs/shorsetal.pdf
  • Immature neurons are needed for some types of complex learning
  • Immature neurons might be recruited into existing neural networks via oscillatory activity
I do like the description on page 4 on what is needed, effortful learning of the new neurons to keep them alive. And if we could just get this matched to the migrating neurons from here:

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