Category: Press Release

Targeting hippocampal neurogenesis to protect astronauts’ cognition and mood from decline due to space radiation effects. November 2022. …https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214552422000499?via%3Dihub

The National Alliance for Autism Research (NAAR) is proud to announce it has committed $8.3 million to fund a variety of projects in autism research. This funding commitment includes research grants and fellowships in the United States, Canada and Europe as well as expansion of the Autism Tissue Program, High Risk Baby Siblings project, and the Autism Genome Project. …https://www.autismspeaks.org/news/news-item/naar-commits-additional-83-million-autism-research

A piece of research led by the Achucarro Basque Center for Neuroscience, the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), and the Ikerbasque Foundation has revealed how the brain’s cleaning up mechanisms function in neurodegenerative diseases. …http://neurosciencenews.com/microglia-phagocytosis-neuroscience-4328/

Amanda Sierra and Juan Manuel Encinas, Ikerbasque researchers at the Achucarro centre (Achucarro Basque Center for Neuroscience) have discovered a new property of hippocampal neural stem cells by using an epilepsy model in genetically modified mice. The work has been published by the journal Cell Stem Cell, an international reference in stem cell research. …https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/05/150515083406.htm

Adult neurogenesis is the process of generating new neurons which integrate into existing circuits even after fetal and early postnatal development has ceased. Until recently, it was commonly thought that neurogenesis stops at the end of development. However, in the last decade, many studies have clearly demonstrated that in most mammals including humans, neurogenesis continues in the adults as well but is limited to the specific brain regions, such as hippocampus. …http://www.nri.texaschildrens.org/faculty_research/mirjana_cellstemcell.aspx

While there are treatments for some forms of epilepsy, it is still not known precisely what leads to this sometimes deadly and debilitating condition. However, researchers at Baylor College of Medicine and Achucarro Basque Center for Neuroscience, Zamudio, Spain, are now closer to unlocking that mystery. …https://www.bcm.edu/news/neuroscience/stem-cells-massively-astrocytes-epilepsy

An award-winning researcher whose scope of involvement is as expansive as her ambition, encompassing everything from education to research to health policy. …http://www.tmc.edu/news/2014/10/hearts-gold/

A brain scan study reveals that children with autism have different brain chemistry compared to kids with other developmental disorders.
A new study published in JAMA Psychiatry showed that the brain’s gray matter undergoes several chemical changes when a child is between 3 and 10 years of age. …http://www.cbsnews.com/news/study-brain-chemistry-in-autistic-kids-differs-from-others-with-developmental-delays/

It doesn’t sound like much: A tiny bit of skin, plucked from the arm of a child and placed in a dish. But in a Houston lab, the skin cells in that dish may be key pieces to solving the puzzle of autism – what causes it, how to diagnose it and, eventually, how to treat it.
At the Neurological Research Institute at Texas Children’s Hospital, Dr. Mirjana Maletic-Savatic and a team of colleagues are finding new ways to explore the mysteries of autism, which affects one in 88 kids. Studying brain disorders can be tricky – after all, you can’t cut into the brain and examine it directly. But now, from their 12th-floor lab in the heart of the Texas Medical Center, this team is using a patient’s own cells to re-create human neurons outside the body. …http://www.chron.com/news/health/article/Solving-the-mystery-of-autism-4456952.php

Since the diagnosis of Autism, it has become one of the most befuddling areas of scientific inquiry. There is no known cause, no cure, and treatments are limited. That is why Dr. Mirjana Maletic-Savatic of the Neurological Research Institute at Texas Children’s Hospital and her team have been trying to discover a way to improve their knowledge of this mercurial disease. …https://bionews-tx.com/news/2013/04/24/autism-researchers-at-texas-hospital-hunt-for-autisms-roots/