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Researchers from Sweden have discovered that the human brain continues to grow new cells in the memory region—called the hippocampus—even into old age. Using advanced tools to examine brain samples ...
New neurons in your brain? A landmark study from Karolinska Institutet finds adults keep forming brain cells into the old age ...
The team suspects that neurogenesis happens in other parts of the adult brain, too. In mice, new neurons are regularly made ...
Scientists have found evidence of new brain cells sprouting in adults - a process that many thought only occurred in children ...
A study in the journal Science presents compelling new evidence that neurons in the brain's memory center, the hippocampus, ...
A research team has discovered that a specific group of neurons in the amygdala, a brain region involved in emotion ...
A brain aneurysm (also called a cerebral aneurysm or an intracranial aneurysm) is a ballooning arising from a weakened area in the wall of a blood vessel in the brain. If the brain aneurysm expands ...
Proton therapy reduced my tumor, but the side effects were horrendous. I was constantly nauseated and vomiting, had brain fog, exhaustion and (my least favorite part) incontinence. I wet myself in ...
You just finished a satisfying summer hike or wrapped up a weekend of yard work when you spot a tick clinging to your clothes ...
Meet the Experts: Michelle Voss, Ph.D., a professor of psychological and brain sciences at the University of Iowa ;and S. Ahmad Sajjadi M.D., Ph.D., an associate professor of neurology at the ...
A pregnant brain-dead woman in Georgia was kept on life support until her fetus was viable. Experts say it raises ethical and legal questions.