
Jason Snyder on Neurogenesis – #24
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Neurogenesis and Alzheimer's Disease
People think maybe their genesisissn important in an old age, for that the argument that has been put forth. But essentially we know that these nuneronts buffer the stress response and they can help reduce anxiety levels in animals,. But then depression is also characterized by things like em ina reward deficits as well. And so we sort of start playing with these things and looking at the role of erogenesis, decision making, that's disrupted into depression. So it's not just for memory, it's everything that memory is involved in. That's a lot of mental health disorders. What kind decision make is impaired in depression? We got interested in this idea of a episodic future thinking
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