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New Neurons in Old Brains Exhibit Babylike Plasticity

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Researchers have identified a “critical period” during which new nerve cells in adult brains have the same capacity to learn as those in developing brains. The finding in mice, reported in this week’s Neuron, provides the promise of therapies that may one day limit or perhaps even reverse the damage of neurodegenerative diseases such as multiple sclerosis and Parkinson’s.