Quotes About Glia

Your brain is built of cells called neurons and glia - hundreds of billions of them. Each one of these cells is as complicated as a city.

Neurons are formed in the proliferative zone of the vertebrate neural tube from multipotent neural stem cells, which give rise to many different types of neurons and to glia. For many years it was thought that no new neurons could be generated in the adult mammalian brain, but the production of new neurons has been demonstrated as a normal occurrence in the adult mammalian brain, and neural stem cells have been identified in adult mammals that can generate neurons.