» New Neurons: Good News, Bad News « Brain Fitness Revolution at SharpBrains
Well, I have a category on this blog called Brain Care, but I don’t post to it very often. Here, though, is a wonderful, straightforward article about how to keep the new neurons that grow in our brains.
Results showed that lasting increase was restricted to new neurons that appeared between one and three weeks before living in an enriched environment. This corresponds to the time when new neurons are extending their neurons in search of targets and their dendrites are developing synaptic contacts to the neurotransmitters normally used in the hippocampus. The new neurons that developed during this time window survived up to the four months of monitoring, even when removed the enriched environment. It would seem that the learning experiences encountered in a rich environment provide the stimulus needed to help new neurons get established into memory-forming circuits, but there is a limited critical time when this effect occurs.
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