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Published on: November 18, 2013
Neurogenesis in the adult brain: death of a dogma
1Department of Psychology, Green Hall, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544, USA. cggross@princeton.edu
Nature Reviews. Neuroscience
|March 17, 2001
Abstract:
For over 100 years a central assumption in the field of neuroscience has been that new neurons are not added to the adult mammalian brain. This perspective examines the origins of this dogma, its perseverance in the face of contradictory evidence, and its final collapse. The acceptance of adult neurogenesis may be part of a contemporary paradigm shift in our view of the plasticity and stability of the adult brain.

