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You can grow new brain cells. Here's how | Sandrine Thuret | TED

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Can we, as adults, grow new nerve cells?

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There's still some confusion about that question,

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as this is a fairly new field of research.

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For example, I was talking to one of my colleagues, Robert,

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who is an oncologist,

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and he was telling me,

00:32

"Sandrine, this is puzzling.

00:33

Some of my patients that have been told they are cured of their cancer

00:38

still develop symptoms of depression."

00:41

And I responded to him,

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"Well, from my point of view that makes sense.

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The drug you give to your patients that stops the cancer cells multiplying

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also stops the newborn neurons being generated in their brain."

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And then Robert looked at me like I was crazy and said,

00:58

"But Sandrine, these are adult patients --

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adults do not grow new nerve cells."

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And much to his surprise, I said, "Well actually, we do."

01:09

And this is a phenomenon that we call neurogenesis.

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[Neurogenesis]

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Now Robert is not a neuroscientist,

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and when he went to medical school he was not taught what we know now --

01:23

that the adult brain can generate new nerve cells.

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So Robert, you know, being the good doctor that he is,

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wanted to come to my lab

01:35

to understand the topic a little bit better.

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And I took him for a tour

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of one of the most exciting parts of the brain

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when it comes to neurogenesis --

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and this is the hippocampus.

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So this is this gray structure in the center of the brain.

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And what we've known already for very long,

01:56

is that this is important for learning, memory, mood and emotion.

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However, what we have learned more recently

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is that this is one of the unique structures of the adult brain

02:09

where new neurons can be generated.

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And if we slice through the hippocampus

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and zoom in,

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what you actually see here in blue

02:18

is a newborn neuron in an adult mouse brain.

02:24

So when it comes to the human brain --

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