France to open nanotechnology-based neurosurgery clinic – Nanowerk LLC. The clinic is the initiative of Professor Alim-Louis Benabib, a neurosurgeon. Under his guidance, the clinic will make use of the latest medical … [neurosurgery neurosurgeon – Google News]

Neurosurgery at an earlier stage of Parkinson disease: A randomized, controlled trial. from [Neurology current issue]

Do I get paid too much?. Every year, the Boston Globe publishes a story listing the total compensation received by the CEOs of the major Boston hospitals. The story is derived from the Forms 990 that are filed by every non-profit, and the numbers are interesting enough that the story always gets good placement in the newspaper.

CEOs do not set their own salaries. Each hospital has a public board of trustees who determine the compensation for their chief executives and who also hold that CEO accountable for running the organization. ……[Running a hospital]

Chronic inhibition of nitric oxide synthesis enhances both subventricular zone neurogenesis and olfactory learning in adult mice.. The ability to generate new neurons during the course of adult life is preserved in the subventricular zone of the lateral ventricles and the dentate gyrus of the hippocampus in the mammalian brain. These two regions constitute specifically regulated neurogenic niches, and provide newborn neurons involved in olfactory and spatial learning, respectively. Nitric oxide (NO) is a negati [PubMed: neural stem cell]

Long-lasting regeneration after ischemia in the cerebral cortex.. PubMed: neural stem cell]

Chronic treatment with minocycline preserves adult new neurons and reduces functional impairment after focal cerebral ischemia.. Evidence suggests that activated microglia are detrimental to the survival of new hippocampal neurons, whereas blocking inflammation has been shown to restore hippocampal neurogenesis after cranial irradiation and seizure. The aim of this current study is to determine the effect of minocycline on neurogenesis and functional recovery after cerebral focal ischemia. METHODS: Four days after temporary middle cerebral artery oc [PubMed: neural stem cell]

Generation of Functional Dopamine Neurons from Neural Precursor Cells Isolated from the Subventricular Zone and White Matter of the Adult Rat Brain using Nurr1 Overexpression.. Neural precursor (NP) cells from adult mammalian brains can be isolated, expanded in vitro, and potentially used as cell replacement source material for treatment of intractable brain disorders. Reduced ethical concerns, lack of teratoma formation, and possible ex vivo autologous transplantation are critical advantages to using adult NP donor cells over cells from fetal brain tissue or embryonic stem cells. However, the usage of adult NP cells is limited by the ability to induce specific neurochemical phenotypes in these cells. Here, we demonstrate induction [PubMed: neural stem cell]

A review of cognitive enhancement technologies. This recent 29-page review of cognitive enhancement technologies [PDF] is written by Anders Sandberg and Nick Bostrom of the Future of Humanity Institute (FHI) at Oxford University. The document was published as part of the EU ENHANCE Project, a two-year initiative, which began in March 2006, to evaluate the ethical implications of advances in human progress […] [Neurophilosophy]

An interesting article in PLOS.

Human Neural Stem Cells Over-Expressing VEGF Provide Neuroprotection, Angiogenesis and Functional Recovery in Mouse Stroke Model

Hong J. Lee^1,2,3, Kwang S. Kim^1,3, In H. Park¹, Seung U. Kim^1,3*

1 Brain Disease Research Center, Ajou University School of Medicine, Suwon, Korea, 2 College of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Korea University, Seoul, Korea, 3 Division of Neurology, Department of Medicine, University of British Columbia Hospital, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

Microglia instruct subventricular zone neurogenesis..

Microglia instruct subventricular zone neurogenesis.

Glia. 2006 Dec;54(8):815-25

Authors: Walton NM, Sutter BM, Laywell ED, Levkoff LH, Kearns SM, Marshall GP, Scheffler B, Steindler DA

Microglia are increasingly implicated as a source of non-neural regulation of postnatal neurogenesis and neuronal development. To evaluate better the contributions of microglia to neural stem cells (NSCs) of the subventricular neuraxis, we employed an adherent culture system that models the continuing proliferation and differentiation of the dissociated neuropoietic subventricular tissues. In this model, neuropoietic cells retain the ability to self-renew and form multipotent neurospheres, but progressively lose the ability to generate committed neuroblasts with continued culture. Neurogenesis in highly expanded NSCs [PubMed: neural stem cell]