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Life Stages Of The Brain (2021)

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The Human Brain Is the Most Complex Three Pounds in the Universe

Every minute in the first few months of life, we generate between 250,000 and 500,000 new brain cells or neurons every minute. Kimberly Noble is a professor of neuroscience at Columbia University. She says most of our brain growth early in life isn't actually the development of new brain cells but the connections between cells.

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