New Salk Study is First to Closely Follow Development of New Neurons in the Adult Brain (IMAGE)
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Salk scientists show how adult brains prune back branched connections of new neurons. Over a period of over a month, the Salk team kept track of each new neural branch, called a dendrite, on the growing neurons, as well as each dendrite that was pruned away. Here, the branches of one cell are shown -- new dendrites are in green, those pruned away are orange, and dendrites that both developed and were pruned away since the last snapshot are in pink.
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