Can brain cells regenerate?

For almost 100 years, it had been a mantra of biology that brain cells or neurons do not regenerate. It was thought that from conception to age 3 all your significant brain development happened then and that was that. Contrary to what had been the widely held popular belief, neurogenesis continuously occurs in specific regions in the adult brain. read more

March 6, 2000 (Boston) -- Here's hope for those who fear they lost too many brain cells to youthful dissipation: Researchers at Cornell University have demonstrated that cells from an area of the brain essential for learning and memory can regenerate in a laboratory dish. read more

Until relatively recently, experts believed the answer was no. But as neuroscientist Sandrine Thuret explains in a new TED Talk, humans can indeed generate new brain cells, a process called neurogenesis. read more