Communications Biology (Apr 2022)

Evidence for postnatal neurogenesis in the human amygdala

  • Sebastian S. Roeder,
  • Petra Burkardt,
  • Fabian Rost,
  • Julian Rode,
  • Lutz Brusch,
  • Roland Coras,
  • Elisabet Englund,
  • Karl Håkansson,
  • Göran Possnert,
  • Mehran Salehpour,
  • Daniel Primetzhofer,
  • László Csiba,
  • Sarolta Molnár,
  • Gábor Méhes,
  • Anton B. Tonchev,
  • Stefan Schwab,
  • Olaf Bergmann,
  • Hagen B. Huttner

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-022-03299-8
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 5, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Lipofuscin labeling and 14 C retrospective birth-dating of neurons, along with mathematical modelling, here suggest continued postnatal neurogenesis in the human amygdala, rather than protracted maturation of developmentally generated neurons.