{"id":25913,"date":"2019-12-31T21:56:50","date_gmt":"2019-12-31T10:56:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=25913"},"modified":"2019-12-31T21:56:53","modified_gmt":"2019-12-31T10:56:53","slug":"old-people-can-produce-as-many-new-brain-cells-as-teenagers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=25913","title":{"rendered":"Old people can produce as many new brain cells as teenagers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"778\" height=\"519\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/purkinje_nerve_cells_in_the_cerebellum.jpg\" alt=\"purkinje_nerve_cells_in_the_cerebellum\" class=\"wp-image-25914\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/purkinje_nerve_cells_in_the_cerebellum.jpg 778w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/purkinje_nerve_cells_in_the_cerebellum-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/purkinje_nerve_cells_in_the_cerebellum-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Old age may have its down sides, but losing the ability to grow new brain cells isn\u2019t one: healthy people in their seventies seem to produce just as many new neurons as teenagers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2165707-old-people-can-produce-as-many-new-brain-cells-as-teenagers\">https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2165707-old-people-can-produce-as-many-new-brain-cells-as-teenagers<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Old age may have its down sides, but losing the ability to grow new brain cells isn\u2019t one: healthy people in their seventies seem to produce just as many new neurons as teenagers. https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2165707-old-people-can-produce-as-many-new-brain-cells-as-teenagers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest","category-health-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25913"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25913\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25915,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25913\/revisions\/25915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}