Robustness ?

[Bill Skaggs]

G. Bugmann writes:

> It is possibly based on the two following beliefs:
> 1) Millions of neurons in our brain die each day. 

> Does anyone know of any publications supporting belief 1 ?

It's a myth.  I heard Robert Sapolsky discuss this in a talk
once:  he said that the myth seems to have been inspired by
some ancient studies of long-time alcoholics.  Neurons do
die every so often, of course, but the rate has never been
quantified (as far as I know) because it's so low, certainly
much fewer than a thousand per day in ordinary, healthy
people.

	-- Bill