Multiplying Neurons

Neuronal Stem Cells To Neurons and Neuroglial Cells

Estimated Neurons: 10-12 Billion Or Higher 

Neurogenesis: Hippocampus (Multiplying Neurons)

Neurogenesis In CNS 

Dogma in Humans and Primates used to be No New Neurons in Adult Brain 

In 1998 New Neurons were found to form within adult Human Hippocampus 

Current Events 

Neurogenesis 

                                Scientists added human brain genes to monkeys.

Scientists in China have created a new kind of monkey. It’s got a human brain gene. And that just might make its intelligence a little bit more like ours.

In a study published last month in Beijing’s National Science Review journal, researchers took human copies of the MCPH1 gene, which is believed to play an important role in our brain development, and introduced it into monkey embryos by means of a virus that carried the gene.

                                                        Results 

Of the 11 transgenic macaque monkeys they generated, six died. The five survivors went through a series of tests, including MRI brain scans and memory tests. It turned out they didn’t have bigger brains than a control group of macaques, but they did perform better on short-term memory tasks. Their brains also developed over a longer period of time, which is typical of human brains.

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