Author: Laura Sanders / Source: Science News

Adult mice and other rodents sprout new nerve cells in memory-related parts of their brains.
People, not so much. That’s the surprising conclusion of a series of experiments on human brains of various ages first described at a meeting in November (SN: 12/9/17, p. 10). A more complete description of the finding, published online March 7 in Nature, gives heft to the controversial…The post The debate over how long our brains keep making new nerve cells heats up appeared first on FeedBox.