Sentences with phrase «generate new brain cells»

I mean, it is as I think everybody in this audience knows the old dogma used to be that adult humans, like all adult mammals, we didn't generate new brain cells.

Electronic memory boosters stem from research on the brain's ability to change and adapt over time by generating new brain cells and forming new neural pathways.

Not exact matches

Researchers show for the first time that healthy older men and women can generate just as many new brain cells as younger people.

In contrast, the new method used on mice causes certain nerve cells to fire at a specific rhythm, generating brain waves that researchers believe may clear A-beta.

The size of the brain's ventricles — cerebrospinal fluid - filled spaces deep within the brain — became progressively larger during the course of treatment, and changes were also seen within the subventricular zone, one of two structures in which new brain cells are generated in adults.

Neural stem cells generate new neurons throughout life in the mammalian brain.

Sure enough, they showed signs of ageing: more inflammation in the brain, and fewer new brain cells being generated, which happens in a process called neurogenesis.

To regain function, connections from the brain to the spinal cord must regrow, different types of immune cells have to clear the injury site, and stem cells in the spinal cord need to generate new nerve cells, which then connect to the muscles.

Buried deep underneath the folds of the cerebral cortex, neural stem cells in the hippocampus continue to generate new neurons, inciting a struggle between new and old as the new attempts to gain a foothold in memory - forming center of the brain.

Scientists at the University of Cambridge and the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute have created a new technique that simplifies the production of human brain and muscle cells - allowing millions of functional cells to be generated in just a few days.

Overall, the study found, older and younger brains had similar numbers of «intermediate» progenitor cells and «immature» neurons — signaling that older people had a similar capacity for generating new cells as young people.

Against common wisdom even the adult and aging brain can generate new neurons from a population of resident stem cells but it does so only in two privileged regions and on a minute scale.

Researchers at Columbia University find evidence that healthy older adults can generate as many new brain cells as younger people.

In fact, the stimulation of playing with toys causes a rat's brain to grow larger and to generate new nerve cells.