The Adult brain cells stop growing myth | ZME Science
December 13, 2007
Who says we know all there is to know? Another myth busted?
The Adult brain cells stop growing myth | ZME Science
This could just be the case here. The fact that after a man has reached adulthood his brain cells stop growing is just not true. Researchers at MIT led by Wei-Chung Allen Lee have showed this. In fact the busting of this myth means proving that adult brain cells, or neurons, are not largely static and that they are able to change their structures in response to new experiences. The study they made showed that the branch-like projections on some neurons, caled “dendrites,” were still physically malleable.
