Fred Gage Quotes

Like synaptic plasticity, “neurogenesis is clearly involved in our interactions with our environment, both emotionally and cognitively,” says neuroscientist Fred Gage, of the Salk Institute in La Jolla, California.

1998, Fred “Rusty” Gage published a revolutionary paper in the journal Nature Medicine, showing that the hippocampus, where new memories form, generates new neurons on a daily basis from a small population of neural stem cells (NSCs). Until then, it had been believed for nearly a century that no new neurons are ever generated in the adult human brain.