The Prospects for Restoring Neurogenesis in the Aging Brain

Source https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2019/12/the-prospects-for-restoring-neurogenesis-in-the-aging-brain/

Today’s open access paper is a review of potential approaches that might be used as a basis for therapies to restore a more youthful level of neurogenesis in the aging mammalian brain. Neurogenesis is the process by which new neurons are created by neural stem cell populations and then integrated into neural networks. In adults, neurogenesis is essential to memory, learning, and the limited degree of regeneration that the brain is capable of enacting. Unfortunately, the supply of new neurons declines with age as the underlying stem cells become ever less active. Beyond making the aging brain more resilient, methods of increasing neurogenesis may prove to be enhancement therapies capable of improving cognitive function even in young people.

Source https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2019/12/the-prospects-for-restoring-neurogenesis-in-the-aging-brain/

Today’s open access paper is a review of potential approaches that might be used as a basis for therapies to restore a more youthful level of neurogenesis in the aging mammalian brain. Neurogenesis is the process by which new neurons are created by neural stem cell populations and then integrated into neural networks. In adults, neurogenesis is essential to memory, learning, and the limited degree of regeneration that the brain is capable of enacting. Unfortunately, the supply of new neurons declines with age as the underlying stem cells become ever less active. Beyond making the aging brain more resilient, methods of increasing neurogenesis may prove to be enhancement therapies capable of improving cognitive function even in young people.

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