Major Discovery Helps Explain How the Adult Brain Cleans out Dead Brain Cells and Produces New Ones
Wednesday, August 10, 2011 - 10:31
in Health & Medicine
UVA Health System researchers have made a pivotal discovery in understanding the complicated process of neurogenesis, and their findings could one day help scientists devise novel therapies to promote neurogenesis in the adult brain and re-establish its function in patients suffering from depression, post-traumatic stress disorder, and other mental disorders, in which adult neurogenesis is impaired.