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You Might Be Stuck With Your Teenage Neurons

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By Leah Froats
Mar 7, 2018 11:00 PMNov 19, 2019 9:56 PM
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(Credit: vitstudios/Shutterstock)If your parents ever warned you that your childhood behavior would kill your brain cells, you may want to call them and say thank you. New research in the journal Nature finds that some of our brain cells may not regenerate as far into our adulthood — or even adolescence — as previously thought. In other words, you get one shot at growing brain cells in a critical region of the brain — so make them count.

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