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Director of Queensland Brain Institute: overcoming neurological diseases around the corner
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Queensland Brain Institute director Professor Pelly Bale.

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Depression, Alzheimer's, stroke, brain damage caused by such neurological disorders are a serious threat to human health and life safety. For such difficult diseases that people really do nothing yet? No. Recently, this reporter found that the Queensland Brain Institute in Australia to overcome these diseases dawn ahead.

Into the campus is located in the University of Queensland's Queensland Brain Institute, a reporter for the Australian Academy of Science, University of Queensland, the founder of Molecular Neuroscience, Director of the Queensland Brain Institute Professor Pelly Balak said: "Brain Science, I know nothing, and today to come to you to learn a lot. "

Balak professor smiled and said: "The human brain by the hundred billion nerve cells (also called neurons) form. How the brain works, that is, the mechanism of learning and memory what, how nerve cells communication between , which molecules and genes involved in this process is an important goal of neurobiology research is one. "In 10-15 years ago, this is not too much of human knowledge, that the human brain produce new nerve cells in the embryo only development period, after the birth of new nerve cells are no longer produced, and the number of nerve cells continue to decrease with age.

Scientific development is to continuously explore. Research group led by Professor Bale after long-term unremitting efforts, in 1992, found in the adult hippocampus development of new nerve cells which has capacity of neural stem cell populations. In the trial process, in 2001, the world's first successful separation of these endogenous neural stem cells, identify their characteristics, and found that in certain pathological conditions, laboratory and activation mechanism of these neural stem cells. The findings show that human neural stem cells in the brain in fact always there, but with age, the vitality of these neural stem cells gradually decreased, the number of developing new nerve cells gradually reduce or even stop. Professor Bale found in a major breakthrough in the field of brain science to overthrow the long-term adherence to terminate nerve cell development early in life theory. Well-known scientific journal - the British "Nature" magazine the same year, the results of this study will be published as the cover story, the scientific community in the brain caused by a strong vibration.

In the field of brain science, the Queensland Brain Institute has good cooperation with China. Professor Bale said, his institute is currently carrying out two major Chinese cooperation, first with the Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2010 were established in Beijing and Brisbane, the "China-Australia Joint Laboratory for Cognitive Neuroscience and "; the second is with the Shanghai Second Military Medical University in 2010 signed a memorandum of cooperation, will cooperate in neural genetics to study schizophrenia, motor neuron disease, epilepsy and other neurological causes of disease.

The results on the timing of neural stem cells can be used for clinical, Professor Bale reported good news, according to the progress of the current study, "can be optimistic to say that animal testing is expected to achieve the desired results within 1-2 years. Human clinical trials and time away from actual clinical application of our closer. " ▲

(Editor: Teng Leina)
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