Wednesday, September 16, 2009

No New Brain Cells For You!

Or not...

One thing that your teachers and parents are always telling you is that when you're born, you've got all the brain cells you will ever have in your life, and that's it. They use this to discourage kids from things like drugs and alchohol, and to make them value what brains they have. Your mentors stand looming over you, slowly raise a finger to point at your skull, and tell you that you can do nothing but wait as all the cells in there waste away and die.

Not so!

Researches in Sweden have used the brains of cancer victims to prove that the human brain can infact regenerate nerve connections. Other science over the recent years has shown that mail songbirds loose brain cells then re-gain them next season. This research prompted others to do some delving into the secrets of the brain, and discovered that many other adult animals can also regenerate brain cells, including rats, monkeys, and tree shrews.

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