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Unlike in other mammals, neuron production in the subventricular region of the human brain becomes depleted in early infancy. This finding calls for a reassessment of the potential role of adult neurogenesis in health and disease. See Letter p.382

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  1. Jon I. Arellano and Pasko Rakic are in the Department of Neurobiology and the Kavli Institute, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut 06510, USA.,

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Arellano, J., Rakic, P. Gone with the wean. Nature 478, 333–334 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/478333a

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