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Considerable progress has been made in understanding the regeneration of brain cells to replace those that have been damaged due to brain injury, according to researchers.

Previously it was thought that dead brain cells could not be replaced in the adult brain.

However, the research group of professor Magdalena Gotz, of Helmholtz Zentrum Munchen and Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat Munich, have discovered cells in the forebrain that can form new neurons to be used elsewhere in the brain.

Ms Gotz, said: "Neural progenitor cells can generate these newly discovered glutamatergic nerve cells for the neighbouring cerebral cortex, for example, after brain injury."

The cerebral cortex plays a key role in higher brain functions, including sensation, voluntary muscle movement, thought, reasoning and memory.

As part of the new research, published in the journal Nature Neuroscience, the research group demonstrated this regeneration on a mouse model.

"Now it will be interesting to find out whether this process also takes place in humans,” added Ms Gotz.

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