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Metabolic Defects in Mice Corrected with Transplanted Embryonic Neurons
A new study has revealed that immature neurons taken from healthy mouse embryos can repair damaged brain circuitry and partially normalize metabolism when transplanted into adult mice that have grown morbidly obese due to a genetic deficiency. This proof-of-principle...Rebuilding the Brain’s Circuitry
Neuron transplants have repaired brain circuitry and substantially normalized function in mice with a brain disorder, an advance indicating that key areas of the mammalian brain are more reparable than was widely believed. Collaborators from Harvard University,...Improved Method of Electrical Stimulation Could Help Treat Damaged Nerves
Functional electrical stimulation (FES) was developed to help return lost function to patients with upper and lower extremity injuries and spinal cord injuries, among other applications. However, the devices, which work by stimulating neuronal activity...Nerve Cells Key to Making Sense of Our Senses
The human brain is bombarded with a cacophony of information from the eyes, ears, nose, mouth and skin. Now a team of scientists at the University of Rochester, Washington University in St. Louis, and Baylor College of Medicine has unraveled how the brain...Transcendental Meditation Effective Antidote to Record Stress Levels in School Students
With record levels of student stress reported in a recent UCLA survey, can a simple stress-reducing meditation technique be a viable solution? A new study published in the Journal of Instructional Psychology found the Transcendental Meditation (TM) technique...Evidence Base for Exercise Programs for Older People Still in the Balance
Good balance and mobility are essential to help you perform most activities involved in every-day life, as well as many recreational pursuits. Keeping your balance is a complex task, involving the co-ordination between a person’s muscles and sensors...It Takes Two: Brains Come Wired for Cooperation, Neuroscientist Asserts
When Nancy Grace and her partner danced a lively rumba to Spandau Ballet’s 1980′s hit, “True,” on a recent “Dancing with the Stars,” more was going on in the legal commentator’s brain than worry over a possible...Young, Apparently Healthy — And At Risk of Heart Disease
Atherosclerosis – or buildup of fat in the walls of arteries ? is thought of as a disorder of older people but it affects a large number of young men and women, according to a new Heart and Stroke Foundation study. “The proportion of young, apparently...
