Can people grow new brain cells?

Can people grow new brain cells?

Charles Ribak, Ph.D. (Professor of Anatomy and Neurobiology, UC Irvine School of Medicine) gives expert video advice on: If I have one seizure, will I definitely have another?; Is there a cure for epilepsy?; What are the surgical treatments for epilepsy? and more...

With regards to the diagnosis and treatment of epilepsy, the brain can grow new brain cells. My current research involves the changes in the dentate gyrus of the hippocampus, where I'm looking at newly generated neurons in the adult brain. I know this goes against the old adage that the brain cells you're born with are the ones you've got the rest of your whole life. Well, that's not exactly true; there are a couple of areas in the brain where new brain cells are being made all the time, one of them is in the hippocampus: the dentate gyrus.