Researchers at Karolinska Institute identified new neurons in adult brains up to age 78, providing direct evidence for lifelong neurogenesis in the hippocampus despite long-standing scientific debate

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Researchers at Karolinska Institute identified new neurons in adult brains up to age 78, providing direct evidence for lifelong neurogenesis in the hippocampus despite long-standing scientific debate

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Neuroscientists long believed you are born with all the neurons you will ever have — in 2025, researchers found newly formed neurons in the brains of adults as old as 78, overturning decades of settled thinking

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For most of the twentieth century, the rule seemed simple. You are born with all the neurons you will ever have, and the adult brain makes no new ones. In

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