Learning early in life may help keep brain cells alive: Brain cells survive in young who master a task

According to a recently published study in Frontiers inNeuroscience, Rutgers behavioral and systems neuroscientist Tracey Shors, who co-authored the study, found that the newborn brain cells in young rats that were successful at learning survived while the same brain cells in animals that didn't master the task died quickly.  http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/05/140527154750.htm