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Eight years after Gould defied the entrenched dogma of her science and proved that the primate brain is always creating new neurons, she has gone on to demonstrate an even more startling fact: The structure of our brain, from the details of our dendrites to the density of our hippocampus, is incredibly influenced by our surroundings. Put a primate under stressful conditions, and its brain begins to starve. It stops creating new cells. The cells it already has retreat inwards. The mind is disfigured.
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equalstwelveA mind-altering idea reveals how life affects the brain.
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Erik Theuerould’s insight was that understanding how stress damages the brain could illuminate the general mechanisms—especially neurogenesis—by which the brain is affected by its environ-mental conditions. For the last several years, she and her post-doc, Mir
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myfavsThe Reinvention of the Self A mind-altering idea reveals how life affects the brain.
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ken .Elizabeth Gould: neurogenesis, marmosets live on as data (ouch): stress starves the brain (glucocorticoids toxic for hippocampus), depression not cured by seratonic imbalance, stimulating bird song->paradigm shift, prozac accident
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