Buck Institute - An Intriguing Connection Between Diet, Eye Health, and Lifespan [Neuroscience, June 2022]

Title:

An Intriguing Connection Between Diet, Eye Health, and Lifespan 

 

Published:

Neuroscience, 7 June 2022

https://neurosciencenews.com/diet-eye-lifespan-20779/

 

Summary: 

A new study of drosophila reveals a link between circadian rhythm, diet, lifespan, and eye health. Unexpectedly, researchers found processes in the fly eye that appear to drive the aging process.

University of Copenhagen - Medical cannabis can reduce essential tremor by turning on overlooked cells in the central nervous system

Title:

Medical cannabis can reduce essential tremor by turning on overlooked cells in the central nervous system 

 

Published:

University of Copenhagen, 18 March 2021

https://news.ku.dk/all_news/2021/03/medical-cannabis-can-reduce-essential-tremor-by-turning-on-overlooked-cells-in-the-central-nervous-system/

 

From the article:

Medical cannabis can reduce essential tremor in mice. By injecting a specific synthetic cannabinoid into the spinal cord of mice suffering from essential tremor, researchers from the University of Copenhagen have shown that the drug can reduce involuntary shaking – as the cannabinoid activates a particular type of cell, the so-called astrocytes.

 

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Title:

Spinal astroglial cannabinoid receptors control pathological tremor

 

Authors:

Eva Maria Meier Carlsen, Sarah Falk, Urszula Skupio [et al.]

 

Published:

Nature Neuroscience, 18 March 2021

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41593-021-00818-4

The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) - Gene pathway linked to schizophrenia identified through stem cell engineering [Medical Xpress, 21 December 2020]

Title:

Gene pathway linked to schizophrenia identified through stem cell engineering 

 

Author:

Deborah Mann Lake, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston

 

Published:

Medical Xpress, 21 December 2020

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2020-12-gene-pathway-linked-schizophrenia-stem.html

 

From the article:

Using human-induced pluripotent stem cells engineered from a single family's blood samples, a gene signaling pathway linked to a higher risk for developing schizophrenia was discovered by scientists at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth). The research was published in a recent issue of Neuropsychopharmacology.