Posted by linkadge on August 8, 2005, at 17:39:51
In reply to Re: Neurogenerative - some questions, posted by Squiggles on August 8, 2005, at 16:44:18
I don't think that overal size matters more than functionality.
When you're depressed, you experience a lack of ability to experience joy. It may be that the joy, or happiness areas of the brain are atrophied.
But its not just that. When you're depressed, you can't remember the good times, you literally can't remember them. Creating new brain cells is probably necessary to keep things new so that you don't get stuck in any one particular negative emotion. Neurorestoration may bring back to life the memories and experiences of the past who define who you are.
I saw a video on the brain done by David Sazuki. Anyhow it showed a picture of a mouse brain cell sample that had undergone a tramatic injury.
On the one side of the screen they showed the group of brain networks trying to reconnect themselves, kind of like a tree branching out, it was very slow.
On the other side of the screen they had a similar sample of cells that had been bathed in a certain growth factor (I think BNDF). This particular group of cells grew, branched out, and reconnected at an astonishingly faster rate than the sample with no growth factor applied.
So it may be that a catastophic neurological event has occured in the limbic system and that these growth factors work to restore its functionality.
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