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“If you followed the disease long enough, eventually the optic nerve, then the retina, show signs of degeneration,” explains David Calkins (above). “So the degeneration works in reverse order. It starts in the brain and works its way back to the retina so that in the very latest stages of the disease, the earliest structures, the ones nearest the eye, are the last to go.” (Credit: Joe Howell)
VANDERBILT (US)—The first sign of injury in glaucoma occurs in the brain, not the eye as previously thought. A new study shows glaucoma is very much like other central nervous system diseases. Continue…
Monday, March 8, 2010 12:05 - 12 Comments
Health & Medicine - Feb 5, 2010 13:20 - 1 Comment
Brain’s ‘fear map’ extends to new region
EMORY (US)—Draw a map of the brain when fear and anxiety are involved, and the amygdala—the brain’s almond-shaped center for panic and fight-or-flight responses—looms large. (more…)
Health & Medicine - Jul 23, 2009 5:00 - 0 Comments
Stem cells fertilize brains of Alzheimer’s mice
Frank LaFerla (left), Mathew Blurton-Jones, and colleagues have found that neural stem cells could be a potential treatment for advanced Alzheimer’s disease.
