and their colleagues wanted to search for evidence of neurogenesis in human brains and test a different technique compared with what had been used in the past. The team collected postmortem and ...

More information: Guy Shapira et al, ADNP is essential for sex-dependent hippocampal neurogenesis, through male unfolded ...

Most of the cells in the adult mammalian brain are mature and don’t divide, but in a few regions, including an area of the hippocampus called the dentate gyrus, neurogenesis occurs. The dentate gyrus ...

The nervous system is a major target for both positive and negative actions of hormones while using hormonal contraceptives.

Mitochondrial fusion grants new neurons a competitive advantage Adult neurogenesis takes place in the hippocampus, a brain region controlling aspects of cognition and emotional behavior.

Viral vectors expressing proneural genes can stimulate adult mammalian retinal glia to become immature neurons. These glia-derived neurons share properties with the bipolar, amacrine and retinal ...