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April 7th, 2016
New role identified for scars at the site of injured spinal cord
NIH/National Institute of Neurological Disorders and StrokeCurriculums:
For decades, it was thought that scar-forming cells called astrocytes were responsible for blocking neuronal regrowth across the level of spinal cord injury, but recent findings challenge this idea. According to a new mouse study, astrocyte scars may actually be required for repair and regrowth following spinal cord injury.
April 5th, 2016
Gut bacteria regulate nerve fibre insulation
Mo CostandiCurriculums:
Research suggests that gut bacteria may directly affect brain structure and function, offering new ways to treat multiple sclerosis and psychiatric conditions. The surprising new findings, published today in the journal Translational Psychiatry, provide what is perhaps the strongest evidence yet that gut bacteria can have a direct physical effect on the brain, and suggest that it may one day be possible to treat debilitating demyelinating diseases such as multiple sclerosis, and even psychiatric disorders, by altering the composition of the gut’s microbial menagerie in some way or another.
April 1st, 2016
Kraniosakralni Terapie
Helena TouskovaCurriculums:
CST and Upledger Institute in a Czech lifestyle magazine
March 31st, 2016
How the brain processes emotions
Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyCurriculums:
Neuroscientists identify circuits that could play a role in mental illnesses, including depression. A new study reveals how two populations of neurons in the brain contribute to the brain's inability to correctly assign emotional associations to events. Learning how this information is routed and misrouted could shed light on mental illnesses including depression, addiction, anxiety, and posttraumatic stress disorder.
March 28th, 2016
A Sensitive Subject
Sonia FernandezCurriculums:
UCSB researchers catalog for the first time patterns of vibration on the skin of the hand that are part of how we sense the world through touch
March 24th, 2016
Sixth Sense: Science begins to Explain How We Sense Electric Fields
The Mind UnleasedCurriculums:
Scientists are starting to figure out what is going on inside our cells when we sense electrical fields.
March 22nd, 2016
Involvement of astrocytes in neurovascular communication
M. Nuriya*, H. HiraseCurriculums:
Abstract: Neuroscientists suggest possible functional roles of astrocytes including astrocytic modulation of the vasculature.
March 14th, 2016
Astrocytes As the Main Players in Primary Degenerative Disorders of the Human Central Nervous System
Francisco Capani, Cecilia Quarracino, Roberto Caccuri and Roberto E. P. SicaCurriculums:
Along the last years it has been demonstrated that non-neural cells play a major role in the pathogenesis of the primary degenerative disorders (PDDs) of the human central nervous system. In this mini review they summarize the astrocytic behavior in PDDs, with special consideration to the experimental observations where astrocytic pathology precedes the development of neuronal dysfunction.
March 8th, 2016
Complaining Is Terrible for You, According to Science
Jessica StillmanCurriculums:
The article explains how complaining can harm your health.
March 1st, 2016
The Brain Waste-Disposal System May Be Enlisted to Treat Alzheimer and Other Brain Illnesses | An internal plumbing system rids the brain of toxic wastes. Sleep is when this cleanup ritual occurs
Maiken Nedergaard, Steven A. GoldmanCurriculums:
The human brain weighs only about three pounds, or roughly 2 percent of the average adult body mass.Yet its cells consume 20 to 25 percent of the body's total energy. In the process, inordinate amounts of potentially toxic protein wastes and biological debris are generated. Each day, the adult brain eliminates a quarter of an ounce of worn-out proteins that must be replaced with newly made ones, a figure that translates into the replacement of half a pound of detritus a month and three pounds, the brain's own weight, over the course of a year.
Read more:
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-brain-s-waste-disposal-system-may-be-enlisted-to-treatalzheimer-s-and-other-brain-illnesses/