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Scientists Learn How to Produce New Brain Cells in Adult Mice

In the June 1, 2014 online issue of Nature Neuroscience Chay Kuo, M.D. Ph.D. of Duke reports that stimulating certain neurons in the adult mouse brain signaled stem cells in the subventricular zone (SVZ) of their brains to produce new neurons. The neurons that Dr. Kuo stimulated are designed to produce the choline

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Michigan Residents Get Top Quality TBI Rehabilitation

Just outside of Lansing, Michigan, the Origami Brain Injury Rehabilitation Center employs an interdisciplinary team of experts to meet the physical, social, spiritual, cognitive, and emotional needs of people who have sustained a brain injury. They focus on maximizing recovery, restoring quality of life, and independence. Michigan residents or others seeking rehabilitation for

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Neurorestoration Center Opens at Keck Hospital at USC

Keck Medicine of USC has just announced the establishment of the USC Neurorestoration Center. The center will bring together the best minds in bio-engineering, neuroscience and neuro-rehabilitation to restore neurological function in the human brain after such conditions as TBI, stroke, and neuro-degenerative diseases like MS, Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s. The center is the

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Using Stem Cells to Stimulate Brain Repair After TBI

What kind of progress is being made in medical repair of traumatic brain injury? An article in May 2014 online issue of Frontiers in Systems of Neuorscience (doi: 10.3389/fnsys.2014.00116) by Naoki Tajiri et al. discusses the use of modified stem cells to create a “biobridge” between the site of cortical brain injury and

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Enriched Environment Speeds Recovery From Mild TBI

The mouse model is the most often used to understand the causes, mechanisms, modes of recovery, and most effective treatments for traumatic brain injury (TBI) in humans. Using mice instead of humans spares humans from potentially destructive injury, and the brains of mice are so remarkably similar to those of humans that lessons

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