Abolishing brain cells

galoisien
Tue, 17 Jun 2008 23:51:13 +0000

Yes, promoting neural stem cell growth is of interest to me.

Particularly important is their survival, since apparently so many of them die on their way to being “fixed” to the brain network.

Neurons by themselves often suffer cell death if they are frequently unused. A sort of Paleolithic adaptation to conserve energy, it seems, that doesn’t seem useful anymore (along with say, destroying the language acquisition module after puberty).