Do Adult Brains Make New Neurons? A Contentious New Study Says No
It’s the latest chapter in a century-long debate about whether neurogenesis continues throughout humans’ lives. In 1928, Santiago Ramón y Cajal, the father of modern neuroscience, proclaimed that the brains of adult humans never make new neurons. “Once development was ended,” he wrote, “the founts …
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