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Adult Human Brains Add New Cells

Scientists presented the first solid evidence that nerve cells in the human brain continue to be born throughout life.

 

References:

Eriksson, P.S. . . . F.H. Gage. 1998. Neurogenesis in the adult human hippocampus. Nature Medicine 4(November):1313.

Gould, E., et al. 1998. Proliferation of granule cell precursors in the dentate gyrus of adult monkeys is diminished by stress. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 95(March 17):3168.

 

Further Readings:

Bower, B. 1998. Grown-up monkey brains get growing. Science News 153(March 21):180.

 

Sources:

Peter S. Eriksson
Göteborg University
Institute of Neurology
41345 Göteborg
Sweden

Fred H. Gage
Salk Institute for Biological Studies
Laboratory of Genetics
10010 North Torrey Pines Road
La Jolla, CA 92037

Elizabeth Gould
Princeton University
Department of Psychology
Green Hall
Princeton, NJ 08544

From Science News, Vol. 154, No. 18, October 31, 1998, p. 276.
Copyright Ó 1998 by Science Service.

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