How to grow new neurons, raise yourself and your children

Dr. Dhanisha Jhaveri is the expert in neurognesis, the process of neuronal growth and maturation. For a long time, scientists believed that new neurons in the human brain can grow only until age of 24-26 years. But Dhanisha was one of the scietists who proved that neurogenesis continues in the adult brain. This discovery made on mice and it changed a lot in what we know about learning, neuronal plasticity, cognitive aging and stress.
Dhanisha explains how physical activity, pregnancy, social interaction, depression and stress affect neurogenesis.
Actually, stress can be different, not always bad, we discuss it too as well as stress-copipng strategies.
In this episode Dr. Jhaveri will share how to stay cognitively young and be stress resilient.

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Timestamps
2:06 They were the first, but no one believed them
6:00 New methods caused a renaissance in neurogenesis
7:33 How immunolabeling works in simple words
10:28 Neurogenesis during learning a song
12:16 To grow a brain in a Pétri dish: is it possible and the reason to do so
14:03 Dhanisha, Indian neuroscientist
16:41 Career-changing question
18:22 Four adult brain regions where new neurons can develop
22:07 When a brain injury reverses the age of neurons
23:32 Do neuronal birth and death always go together?
26:11 A little “social” party of neurons: how do newborn neurons integrate into existing brain circuits?
28:40 The core of neurogenesis: what’s important to understand
29:52 The effects of learning on neurogenesis
30:57 A beauty secret from neuroscientists
31:05 Loneliness, love and brain health
31:58 How to help the elderly population to slow down aging and degeneration of neurons
32:50 How your lifestyle influences neuronal plasticity and brain health
33:33 Stress and neurogenesis
34:28 Good and bad stress, what cortisol does, when stress damages health
37:30 Stress, neuronal plasticity and depression
39:35 Dhanisha’s discovery for depression treatment
40:20 Ideas for stress management by a brain researcher
42:20 Outlook for future research: resilience to stress
42:50 Stress in children
44:50 A good strategy to be stress-resilient
45:22 How learning in childhood biologically supports your brain in the adulthood
46:52 Maternal stress causes long-term depression in children
47:57 Brain as hardware
48:21 Pregnancy as a factor for neuronal plasticity and child-bonding
51:54 Antidepressants, stem cell activity and neuronal plasticity
54:15 Which neurons are killed by stress faster and how it happens
56:17 How to become a great scientist: the strength of honesty