
Theresa Sullivan Barger
Theresa Sullivan Barger is an award-winning freelance journalist who covers health, science, and the environment. Her stories have appeared in The New York Times, The Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times, AARP, CURE, Discover, Family Circle, Health Central, Next Avenue, IEEE Spectrum, Connecticut Magazine, CT Health Investigative Team, and more. Based in central Connecticut, she is an advanced master gardener who is passionate about gardening for wildlife, especially pollinators and songbirds.
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Can adults make new brain cells? New study may finally settle one of neuroscience's greatest debates
By Theresa Sullivan Barger published
Scientists say they have very strong evidence that the adult human brain is capable of making new neurons, a point of ongoing controversy in neuroscience.
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