Andrew Huberman· PhD
even people who are very late in life, terminally ill in fact, are still producing new neurons in the dentate gyrus of the hippocampus.
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even people who are very late in life, terminally ill in fact, are still producing new neurons in the dentate gyrus of the hippocampus.
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You can absolutely learn at 66 and way beyond. There's an amazing study from Rusty Gage's lab at the Salk Institute years ago, showing that even people who are very late in life, terminally ill in fact, are still producing new neurons