An alarming new report finds that you may be causing significant damage to your brain and not even realize it. Scientists have just made a huge finding about sleep that suggests the way you’re sleeping is potentially causing great damage to your brain. Researchers at Marche Polytechnic University in Italy found that a lack of...
Tag: <span>Astrocytes</span>
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'Helper cells' can turn toxic in brain injury and diseases
For many years, research on neurodegenerative diseases and spinal cord and brain injury has focused on damage to nerve cells, or neurons. Now, a new study of astrocytes – a type of cell that surrounds and supports neurons – finds that there is a subtype that can turn rogue and kill neurons, instead of helping...