Robert Sapolsky, a neuroscientist at Stanford, has been a prevailing voice in stress biology for some time. He proposed theories over a decade ago that suggested stress was actually killing brain cells in a part of the brain called the hippocampus, a structure crucial for learning and memory.In fact, the last ten years or so have revealed some interesting things about the hippocampus, especially as it relates to stress. Contrary to years of dogma, BrainFire we discovered that the hippocampus is an area of the brain that is continually giving birth to new neurons. For many years, we believed that the brain was incapable of making new neurons after development, but we now know that's not true. New neurons are being born (and dying) in the hippocampus all the time.http://www.healthcaresup.com/brainfire/
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