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Researchers from Sweden have discovered that the human brain continues to grow new cells in the memory region—called the hippocampus—even into old age. Using advanced tools to examine brain samples ...

Swedish researchers at Karolinska Institutet have discovered that the human hippocampus continues to produce new neurons ...