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"Maybe the inhibitory network is where the capacity is for large-scale changes. What's more, this growth is tied to use, so even as adults, the more we use our minds, the more robust they can be."
 
By Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Despite the prevailing belief that adult brain cells don't grow, a researcher at MIT's Picower Institute for Learning and Memory reports in the Dec. 27 issue of Public Library of Science (PLoS) Biology that structural remodeling of neurons does in fact occur in mature brains.

This finding means that it may one day be possible to grow new cells...

http://www.rxpgnews.com/research/neurosciences/regeneration/article_3071.shtml