1. No new brain cells are produced after birth. 2. But attempts to use proteins known as growth factors to spur the body to sprout new brain cells or blood vessels have failed. 3. But recent findings have shown that new brain cells are continually created from neural stem cells, at least in certain regions of the brain. 4. But many scientists believed that monkeys and humans could not be growing new brain cells, and certainly not in a area like the hippocampus. 5. Compared with last year, the number of new brain supplements are the big new thing, she said. 6. Finally, new brain research shows that children are ready to learn much earlier and that they need the stimulus of an age-appropriate curriculum. 7. Experts say they fully expect that humans are no different and that they, too, make new brain cells in adult life. 8. He wondered whether the swelling brains during breeding seasons could represent the actual growth of new brain cells. 9. He said a man was shopping for a new brain. 10. If it works in birds, can neurogenesis, or the growth of new brain cells, work in humans? |