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Laying out the evidence for the persistence of neurogenesis in the adult human hippocampus

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  1. College of Life Sciences, University of Leicester and Leicestershire Partnership National Health Service Trust, Leicester, UK

    Golo Kronenberg

  2. Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Corporate Member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Berlin Institute of Health, Klinik und Poliklinik für Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie, 10117, Berlin, Germany

    Friederike Klempin

  3. Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC), 13125, Berlin, Germany

    Friederike Klempin

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Kronenberg, G., Klempin, F. Laying out the evidence for the persistence of neurogenesis in the adult human hippocampus. Eur Arch Psychiatry Clin Neurosci 270, 497–498 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00406-019-01066-1

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