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Bridget M. Kuehn

JAMA. 2008;300(9):1013-1014.

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The discovery that new brain cells are created in some regions of the adult brain challenged long-held dogma and inspired many scientists to explore the regenerative capacity of the central nervous system (Eriksson PS et al. Nat Med. 1998:4[11]:1313-1317). As the body of research on neural repair grows, scientists are developing a better understanding of the potential and limits of this regenerative capacity and investigating how it might be harnessed for therapeutic purposes.

Fred H. Gage, PhD, a neuroscientist at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla, Calif, and member of the team that first discovered adult human neurogenesis, and Michael E. Selzer, MD, PhD, professor of neurology at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine in Philadelphia and director of Rehabilitation Research and Development in the Department of Veterans Affairs, are leaders in this emerging field of study. They recently spoke with JAMA . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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