Why can’t neurons regenerate themselves like other cells?

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Why can’t neurons regenerate themselves like other cells?

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Because neurons and their connections are the “data” in the brain. If they regenerated, this would change the “knowledge” in the brain. This can happen, we call it “learning”, but if it were to become unstructured it would be a brain tumor = not good.

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