For more than six decades, neuroscientists have wrestled with a fundamental question about the human brain: Do adults ...

Scientists say they have very strong evidence that the adult human brain is capable of making new neurons, a point of ongoing ...

Scientists have found evidence of new brain cells sprouting in adults - a process that many thought only occurred in children ...

Researchers from Sweden have discovered that the human brain continues to grow new cells in the memory region—called the hippocampus—even into old age. Using advanced tools to examine brain samples ...

Neurogenesis—a process whereby new neurons are created—is said to continue throughout one’s life, even as the rate is ...

Scientists in Sweden led the study, published Thursday in Science. They found abundant signs of neural stem cells growing in ...

After years of debate, scientists provided new evidence for the lifelong birth of human brain cells, which may inform future ...