While neurogenesis—the growth of new brain cells—typically slows with age, superagers produce new neurons in the hippocampus at twice the rate of healthy older adults. In contrast, individuals with ...

"Super-agers" seem to produce more new nerve cells in a brain region important for memory than other people their age ...

Adults whose brains still have strong neuron production seem to have better memory and cognitive function than do those in ...

In a recent study published in Nature, scientists found that elderly adults known as super-agers had about twice as many newly formed neurons in their hippocampi—the brain region central to memory—as ...

"This is biological proof that their brains are more plastic, and a real discovery that shows that neurogenesis of young ...

“SuperAgers have more immature neurons and neuroblasts in the hippocampus, which is an indication of stronger neurogenesis ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A brief gene pulse in learning-activated engram neurons restored memory in aged and Alzheimer’s-model mice. (CREDIT: Shutterstock) ...

Some older adults with exceptional memory grow far more new neurons in the hippocampus, while Alzheimer’s brains show almost ...

October 19, 2011 — New studies in animal models show not only that stimulating targeted regions of the brain improves spatial memory but also that neurogenesis explains, at least in part, this ...

Brains of older adults with super-healthy cognition grow more new neurons than those of their peers, according to a study ...

The barrel cortex, a specialised region within the rodent somatosensory cortex, plays a central role in the processing of tactile information derived from the whiskers. Recent studies have elucidated ...

Picture a star-shaped cell in the brain, stretching its spindly arms out to cradle the neurons around it. That's an astrocyte, and for a long time, scientists thought its job was caretaking the brain, ...