Sentences with phrase «repairing damaged brains»

Anne Rosser (Cardiff U.) has a long - standing interest in repairing damaged brains by grafting in healthy new cells.

Rescuing minds from disease and decay: Molecular genetics and brain scanning technologies are bringing the dream of repairing damaged brains a step closer to reality.

We are learning things from the brain sciences that might eventually help us repair damaged brains and understand mental illness, the authors say, but the frenzied, money - and - media - driven application of neuroscience from «neuroeducation» to «neuroeconomics» is premature.

As we begin to understand how our brains work, the possibility of using that knowledge to diagnose diseases, assess cognitive and emotional states, use surgery or pharmacology to repair damaged brains, implant preventive and therapeutic devices into the brain, and most controversially, enhance and improve our brains, will become a reality.

Not exact matches

The materials are now being used in repairing jaws, faces, skulls, blood vessels, even damaged brain tissue.

it will make you wonder if there is a spirit beyond our bodies,,, or all of it is in the brain itself... I see how hard it is for stroke victims to return to their old self after the brain has been damaged... and I wondered sometimes if the person I knew was even in the body anymore... It is a question I do not have a firm answer for... but I like to think the spirit exists and just can not use the brain anymore... it is like a computer interface that is damaged and the body has failed to repair itself... Our brains can reroute data, or rebuild some damage..

In response, your brain starts to repair the damaged tissue.

Apolipoprotein E is a protein that is important in the repair and recovery of brain cells that have been damaged due to concussion.

Transplanted memories and mind - controlled wheelchairs are real — now implants are on the horizon that will repair brain damage and maybe even patch dementia

The study is an important demonstration that a drug might be used to repair brain damage, Gallo says.

«If we get better at mapping the brain areas responsible, it will lead to more precision in the use of technologies that may repair these damaged connections, like deep brain stimulation.»

Frankovich hoped the approach would work, but Paul Michael's brain was potentially damaged, she warned, and it could take years to repair.

If a pharma company can find a way to temporarily disable those molecules (most likely by blocking their receptor, PirB), that secondary damage might be avoided, and the brain might also do a better job of repairing itself.

In 1999 the FDA approved the material for clinical use, and soon surgeons across the nation began using it on patients to repair rotator cuffs, abdominal hernias, and esophageal reflux damage, and even to induce the regrowth of the outer lining of the brain.

A major challenge in repairing the brain is obtaining cortical neurons from the appropriate layer and area in order to restore the damaged cortical pathways in a specific manner.

And its Defense Sciences Office (DSO) has aligned with President Barack Obama's Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies Initiative, calling for grant applications on projects to design therapeutic devices for neurological disorders and to repair brain damage in military service memBrain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies Initiative, calling for grant applications on projects to design therapeutic devices for neurological disorders and to repair brain damage in military service membrain damage in military service members.

«This study, carried out using laboratory rats modeling stroke, demonstrated that ischemic stroke — in both its subacute and chronic stages — damages the BSCB in a variety of ways, creating a toxic environment in the spinal cord that can lead to further disability and exacerbate disease pathology,» said study lead author Dr. Svitlana Garbuzova - Davis, associate professor in USF's Center of Excellence for Aging and Brain Repair, Department of Neurosurgery and Brain Repair.

«Because our investigations on the post-stroke microvascular alterations, including BSCB damage, have just begun, many questions remain,» said senior author Dr. Cesario Borlongan, professor and director of the USF Center of Excellence for Aging and Brain Repair.

Of those who venture into the skull, about half restrict themselves to repairing blood - vessel damage on the brain's surface.

This is why the brain is unable to repair damaged myelin.

These rare, damage - repairing cells are found in many organs (including the brain), but the cells can transform into only a limited range of cell types.

«Alzheimer's drug repairs brain damage after alcohol binges in rodents: Drug appears to reverse structural and genetic brain changes that affect memory, learning.»

Stem cells hold tremendous promise for medicine; their ability to metamorphose into other kinds of cells make them useful for repairing injuries — from heart attacks to brain damage.

A protein in blood can repair age - related damage in the brains and muscles of old mice, returning them to a more youthful state.

But, fascinating anecdotes aside, does hard evidence exist of specific vulnerability genes or how they might impair the immune system, brain, and gut — and most important, do we have any rational, reliable approaches to help repair the damage?

We may be able to do the same thing with similar cell lines for neurons, where we can repair the damage in the brain itself.

The second, RAM (Restoring Active Memory), calls for a separate wireless device that repairs brain damage and restores memory loss.

The cancer gene BRCA1, which keeps tumors in the breast and ovaries at bay by producing proteins that repair damaged DNA, may also regulate brain size.

In a new study, Yale Cancer Center researchers identified a novel genetic defect that prevents brain tumor cells from repairing damaged DNA.

Using their model, the team has shown that induced neural stem cells, or iNSCs, can replace stroke - damaged brain tissue and stimulate neuroplasticity — the brain's ability to naturally repair itself.

Such plasticity in what is a major pathway in the adult canary's brain is surprising, say the researchers, and suggests that one day we may find ways of encouraging damaged human brains to repair themselves (Science, vol 249, p 1444).

To repair damage to the outer layers of the brain (the cortex), they have to migrate some distance, especially in the large human brain.

The research, published July 11 in the journal Stem Cell Reports, opens possibilities for effectively guiding stem cells to repair brain damage.

Rather than sending a message to the brain, as nose receptors do, the receptor triggered cells to divide and migrate, important processes in repairing damaged skin (Journal of Investigative Dermatology, doi.org/tkm).

Ultimately, the enhanced understanding of central nervous system organization that has derived from the research of these three scientists may lead to new and more effective ways to repair diseased or damaged circuits embedded in the human brain and spinal cord.

Although the research indicates it may someday be possible to regenerate neurons from the body's own cells to repair traumatic brain injury or spinal cord damage or to treat conditions such as Alzheimer's disease, the researchers stressed that it is too soon to know whether the neurons created in these initial studies resulted in any functional improvements, a goal for future research.

Researchers initially tried to understand why the brain's stem cells, which normally help repair brain damage, are unresponsive in Alzheimer's disease.

Their compound, which is intended to repair brain damage that has already occurred, is a significant departure from current Alzheimer's treatments, which either slow the process of cell death or inhibit cholinesterase, an enzyme believed to break down a key neurotransmitter involved in learning and memory development.

They're not making new brain cells but they may be enhancing the repair processes and reducing inflammatory damage.»

In cases of Parkinson's Disease, Multiple Sclerosis, Alzheimer's or other neurodegenerative disease, adult stem cells can slow the degenerative progression of your symptoms while restoring blood flow to the brain and repairing or replacing damaged tissue.

Meanwhile, work is advancing to remove and repair the rest of the cellular and molecular damage driving Parkinson's as a clinical syndrome of the aging brain.

One might speculate that each of these damage - repair therapeutics may exhibit differential targeting of particular AS species or brain regions, as different clinical synucleinopathies exhibit distinct regional localizations and conformations of AS pathology.

These cells have the ability to cross the blood - brain barrier and travel directly into the nervous system to improve blood flow to the brain and repair some of the nerve damage which has occurred as a result of your degenerative disease or neurological injury.

This enables the doctors to target your stem cells inside the brain to re-establish blood flow and repair damaged nerve cells (neurons).

The researchers speculated that in brain cells, cycles of DNA damage and repair facilitate learning and memory, whereas an imbalance between damage and repair disrupts these functions.

It repairs damaged tissues, allows critical immune function to take place and encodes the day's memories more deeply in the brain.

MSCs have been seen in clinical research to migrate to damaged myelin zones of the brain tissue and repair these protectors of the CNS.

Doctors at Okyanos utilize a specifically developed Okyanos protocol for opening up the blood brain barrier to help deliver stem cells directly to the brain; a technique that has been proven effective in independent studies This enables doctors to target your stem cells inside the brain to re-establish blood flow and repair damaged nerve cells (neurons) as well as target the restoration of myelin, halting the future progression of symptoms.

New research proposes a technique for repairing damaged «circuits» that connect regions of the brain.

Adult stem cell therapy can slow the degenerative progression of your symptoms while repairing or replacing damaged neurons and brain tissue.