NeuroNote 1
I watched a TEDtalk called “Can the
Damaged Brain Repair Itself?”, which was given by Siddharthan Chandran, a
neurologist. He discussed how the brain can repair itself, but it cannot repair
itself well enough or fast enough for people who have Lou Gehrig’s disease or
other degenerative conditions. He proceeded to then discuss some techniques
using adult stem cells that could help the brain reconstruct itself. He told us
of clinical trial that he did with some colleagues where they took bone marrow,
grew them up to stem cells, and then injected them into the participant’s
veins. The results lead them to believe that the the stem cells promoted
endogenous stem cells to do their job and lay down new myelin.
I
chose to watch this video because one of my best friend’s dad passed away from
Lou Gehrig’s disease and my grandfather has dementia. Therefore, this topic was
very interesting to me. I just love to learn about techniques that can help
degenerative diseases, and I’m always looking for new topics to learn about
degenerative conditions and how they can be treated.
Something
I took away from this talk was learning about stem cells. I have never really known
much about stem cells except for things I heard in the media when I was growing
up and opinions of other people around me. Therefore, this topic was
interesting for me to learn more about and learn about some things that stem
cells can do in the body especially with degenerative conditions.
https://www.ted.com/talks/siddharthan_chandran_can_the_damaged_brain_repair_itself/transcript
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