Changing stroke rehab and research worldwide now.Time is Brain! trillions and trillions of neurons that DIE each day because there are NO effective hyperacute therapies besides tPA(only 12% effective). I have 523 posts on hyperacute therapy, enough for researchers to spend decades proving them out. These are my personal ideas and blog on stroke rehabilitation and stroke research. Do not attempt any of these without checking with your medical provider. Unless you join me in agitating, when you need these therapies they won't be there.

What this blog is for:

My blog is not to help survivors recover, it is to have the 10 million yearly stroke survivors light fires underneath their doctors, stroke hospitals and stroke researchers to get stroke solved. 100% recovery. The stroke medical world is completely failing at that goal, they don't even have it as a goal. Shortly after getting out of the hospital and getting NO information on the process or protocols of stroke rehabilitation and recovery I started searching on the internet and found that no other survivor received useful information. This is an attempt to cover all stroke rehabilitation information that should be readily available to survivors so they can talk with informed knowledge to their medical staff. It lays out what needs to be done to get stroke survivors closer to 100% recovery. It's quite disgusting that this information is not available from every stroke association and doctors group.

Wednesday, April 15, 2015

Adult neurogenesis 20 years later: physiological function vs. brain repair

In these 20 years what changes to your stroke protocols from your doctor have occurred?
ANY AT ALL?
http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fnins.2015.00071/full?

Adult neurogenesis 20 years later: physiological function vs. brain repair

Paolo Peretto^1,2^* and

Luca Bonfanti^1,3^*

¹Neuroscience Institute Cavalieri Ottolenghi, Orbassano, Italy
²Life Sciences and Systems Biology, University of Turin, Torino, Italy
³Department of Veterinary Sciences, University of Turin, Torino, Italy

Two decades of intense investigation in the field of adult neurogenesis (AN) provided us with a fully renewed vision of brain plasticity, involving stem/progenitor cells capable of generating new neurons and glial cells throughout life. We know for sure that new neurons produced within canonical stem cell niches do play a significant role in cognitive tasks (learning/memory) operated by specific neural systems (Lepousez et al., 2013; Aimone et al., 2014). The fact that neural stem/progenitor cells (NSC) produce new elements that can integrate within some regions of the mature brain, replacing lost neurons/glial cells or adding to pre-existent neural circuits, appears extremely fascinating in the perspective of regenerative therapeutic approaches. Since the burst of investigations in AN/NSC field in the nineties, many neurobiologists addressed their studies on brain plasticity in the hope of brain repair, often discussing their results in a translational context. Nevertheless, in spite of striking efforts to clarify mechanisms/factors regulating AN and its physiological function, the question whether it can be exploited for healing neurologic diseases remains unsolved.(This is precisely why we need a strategy) More recent findings revealed additional examples of “non-canonical” neurogenesis and gliogenesis in various regions of the mammalian central nervous system (CNS; reviewed in Bonfanti and Peretto, 2011). These discoveries also open new hopes for brain repair, since the occurrence of spontaneous neuro-gliogenesis within the parenchyma does represent an endogenous source of progenitor cells even outside the restricted environment of canonical neurogenic sites. Nevertheless, parenchymal cell genesis remains substantially obscure as to its functional meaning(s) and outcome(s), and not yet exploitable for brain repair. Such an impasse largely resides on evolutionary discrepancies: most vertebrates use AN for brain repair as a byproduct of evolution, in addition to its physiological functions; mammals have lost such capacity, mainly because of unfavorable environments for repair/regeneration in their mature CNS (Bonfanti, 2011). A scarce perception of these facts might have produced misconceptions among scientists, sometimes leading to attitudes of unconditional optimism.

This Editorial is part of a Frontiers' research topic (and related e-book), gathering 18 articles which were intended to explore the relationships between actual existence of NCSs in mammals (playing homeostatic roles in AN and responding to pathological conditions) and lack of effective reparative outcome in terms of regenerative neurology.

Much more at link.