Sentences with phrase «neurons in aging adults»
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While these brain rhythms, occurring hundreds of times a night, move in perfect lockstep in young adults, findings published in the journal Neuron show that, in old age, slow waves during non-rapid eye movement (NREM) sleep fail to make timely contact with speedy electrical bursts known as «spindles.»
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The study, which appears today in the journal Neuron, involved 20 young adults (ages 18 to 31) and 20 cognitively healthy older adults (ages 64 to 89).
The current study reports neurogenesis (neuron creation) occurred in the spinal cords of both adult and aged (over one - year old) mice of both sexes, although the response was much weaker in the aged mice, Dr. Zhang said.
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.