Researchers hope they have begun paving a new pathway in the fight against drug dependence. Their hypothesis -- that increasing the normally occurring process of making nerve cells might prevent ...

Memory impairment and mood changes are typically observed in patients with Alzheimer’s disease but what disturbs these neuronal functions is unclear. Some researchers have proposed that alterations in ...

In the midst of our busy schedules, finding moments of silence can be a challenging task. However, a compelling body of ...

Adult neurogenesis supports important brain functions, such as learning and memory, and its sharp decrease during aging may contribute to the cognitive decline of the aged brain. This Collection aims ...

In mammalian adult brains, neural stem cells are only present in few specific parts, so called niches. Only these niches are capable of generating new neurons. For the first time, researchers defined ...

Scientists once thought that mammals entered adulthood with all of the neurons they would ever have, but studies from the 60s found that new neurons are generated in certain parts of the adult brain ...

A new study on intermittent fasting has found that eating every other day may be beneficial when it comes to long-term memory, as well as enhancing the 'learning processes' and increasing neurogenesis ...

Researchers from the Complutense University of Madrid in Spain have found that dimethyltryptamine (DMT), the psychoactive compound in Amazonian ayahuasca tea, promotes neurogenesis, or the formation ...

Fifteen years ago, the discovery of adult neurogenesis (the production of new neurons) in the highly static, non-renewable mammalian brain was a breakthrough in neuroscience. Now new neuronal ...

“I like to think of the dentate as an association machine,” says Sam Pleasure, a neuroscientist at the University of California, San Francisco. All day long, he says, we’re walking around the world ...

“We provide thorough information on the extent of neurogenesis and we show that there is surprisingly large amount,” said study author Jonas Frisén of the Karolinksa Institute in Stockholm, Sweden.