Human beings keep developing new brain cells throughout their lives, even while in the 90s, a research that may open the way to treatments for Alzheimer’s disease, connected with loss in brain cells, according to a study.

58 Patients Closely Examined

Scientists had previously thought that most of our neurons brain cells that send electrical signals are surely in place by the time humans take birth.

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The team of scientists at the University of Madrid has reportedly looked at the brains of 58 deceased people who had an age of 43 to 97 and targeted on the hippocampus, a part of the brain involved in memory and emotion, lost in Alzheimer’s patients.

Slight Decrease In Neurogenesis With Age

They were able to see immature or “new” neurons in the brains that they studied, the BBC reported. In healthy brains there was a “little decrease” in the amount of this neurogenesis with age.