These cells can generate neurons, Schwann cells, myofibroblast, chondrocytes and melanocytes.

Researchers theorized that the cells, as in rats and monkeys, generated new neurons that migrated to olfactory regions, helping maintain the sense of smell.

Initial studies that suggested that the adult brain could generate new neurons were largely ignored.

Intention was that the neuronal generator would eventually use genetic algorithms to generate neurons for simulation.

Intermediate progenitor cells then divide symmetrically in the subventricular zone to generate neurons.

(Birds apparently generate neurons to encode new songs.)

But Dr. Goldman is thought to be the first to generate neurons from adult human brains and grow them in a laboratory.

The adult mammalian brain contains two discrete niches of stem cells which retain the ability to generate new neurons.

Whereas some earlier studies have suggested that OPCs can generate cortical neurons, more recent studies have refuted these findings.

This region contains adult neural stem cells which have the potential to generate new neurons and glial cells via neurogenesis.