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TED Talks: Season 2016

2016x30 Jocelyne Bloch: The Brain May Be Able To Repair Itself - With Help
TV-PG

  • 2016-02-15T05:00:00Z on YouTube
  • 15m
  • United States
  • English
  • Documentary
Through treating everything from strokes to car accident traumas, neurosurgeon Jocelyne Bloch knows the brain's inability to repair itself all too well. But now, she suggests, she and her colleagues may have found the key to neural repair: Doublecortin-positive cells. Similar to stem cells, they are extremely adaptable and, when extracted from a brain, cultured and then re-injected in a lesioned area of the same brain, they can help repair and rebuild it. 'With a little help,' Bloch says, 'the brain may be able to help itself.'
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