Older people still make new brain cells

• Autores: Helen Thomson
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3173, 2018, pág. 12
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • People in their 70s seem to produce just as many new neurons as teenagers and the discovery could provide clues as to how we can keep our minds sharper for longer, as Maura Boldrini at Columbia University in New York and her colleagues have analysed the hippocampi from 28 people, aged between 14 and 79. These were examined soon after each person's death to check for the number of new neurons they contained, and other signs of neuron function and activity. Similar numbers of new neurons were found throughout each hippocampus, regardless of a person's age. The team estimates that each person was making about 700 neurons a day when they died.