Enriched Environments, Delayed Brain-Disease and Neurogenesis

I wrote previously about Dr. Elizabeth Gould's work with marmosets showing that enriched environments promoted neurogenesis, while less complex environments promoted something more like a "survival state" of base functionality without neural development. I likened it to the general modern condition, and the modern malaise present in our society. It was a philosophical reach, not a scientific one, but it seems I am not far off...
Nature Reviews: Enriched environments, experience-dependent plasticity and disorders of the nervous system

Originally found here: The Frontal Cortex, Brain Diseases and the Environment (Note his comment on piblic schools.)