Adult Hippocampal Neurogenesis – Maria Conley, M.D.

A board certified internal medicine physician talks about how your adult brain creates new brain cells in a process called adult hippocampal neurogenesis. Certain activities such as running and learning a difficult task can trigger even more neurons to be created.

You are able to grow new brain cells throughout your life in the hippocampal formation of your brain. Certain activities such as running and learning new things can trigger this process. We’ll follow a newborn neuron (brain cell) from its creation at Day 1 to the time it becomes a mature neuron at Day 60. Explained by a practicing board certified internal medicine physician.

A board certified internal medicine physician talks about the hippocampus (Latin for “seahorse”). This is a small area of your brain that is critical for forming new memories. It shrinks with age and is the first brain structure affected by Alzheimer’s dementia. It is also the only place in the human brain where new brain cells (neurons) are born throughout life, even as an adult.