This Brain Region Keeps Growing in Adulthood

in health •  8 years ago 

The part of the brain that specializes in recognizing faces becomes denser with tissue over time, new research finds.   The discovery is surprising to researchers, because brain development  from childhood into adulthood was long thought to happen mostly through  the pruning of synapses, the connections between neurons. In other  words, the brain was thought to develop by becoming more streamlined,  not by growing new tissue. ..... Read More

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Very interesting and certainly news to me!

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thank you @papa-pepper
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Excellent @atkins!

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