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April 17th, 2016

The comparison of the therapeutic massage with the craniosacral method in treating the pain syndrome of the cranial part of the spine

Miszewski Waldemar, Miszewska Agnieszka, Śniegocki Maciej, Siedlecki Zygmunt, Grzyb Sebastian, Siminska Joanna, Pietkun Katarzyna, Głowacka Iwona, Nowacka Krystyna, Hagner Wojciech
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Massage has been used for several thousand years at least, aiming at relief in suffering and decreasing all kinds of ailments, including health problems with the cervical vertebrae. 

Craniosacral therapy is quite a new method of treatment since it was founded in the first half of the 20th century. It is different from other methods because it treats energetic changes and lessens the pathological tension in the fascia. Whereas, other methods used by physiotherapists begin working with the patient much later, after functional changes have advanced – contractures or structural degenerations, which cannot be fully removed. And the organism will not be able to come back to full efficiency. 

Pains of the cervical part of the spine occur quite often in modern societies, including the Polish one. What is more, this troubles younger and younger people. 

The results of the research conducted on two groups of twenty people, which were described by Method T – Student, proved that both the therapeutic massage and the craniosacral therapy are effective ways of treating the pain syndrome of the cranial part of the spine. 

 

April 7th, 2016

New role identified for scars at the site of injured spinal cord

NIH/National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
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For decades, it was thought that scar-forming cells called astrocytes were responsible for blocking neuronal regrowth across the level of spinal cord injury, but recent findings challenge this idea. According to a new mouse study, astrocyte scars may actually be required for repair and regrowth following spinal cord injury.
April 5th, 2016

Gut bacteria regulate nerve fibre insulation

Mo Costandi
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Research suggests that gut bacteria may directly affect brain structure and function, offering new ways to treat multiple sclerosis and psychiatric conditions. The surprising new findings, published today in the journal Translational Psychiatry, provide what is perhaps the strongest evidence yet that gut bacteria can have a direct physical effect on the brain, and suggest that it may one day be possible to treat debilitating demyelinating diseases such as multiple sclerosis, and even psychiatric disorders, by altering the composition of the gut’s microbial menagerie in some way or another.
April 1st, 2016

Kraniosakralni Terapie

Helena Touskova
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CST and Upledger Institute in a Czech lifestyle magazine
March 31st, 2016

How the brain processes emotions

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Neuroscientists identify circuits that could play a role in mental illnesses, including depression. A new study reveals how two populations of neurons in the brain contribute to the brain's inability to correctly assign emotional associations to events. Learning how this information is routed and misrouted could shed light on mental illnesses including depression, addiction, anxiety, and posttraumatic stress disorder.
March 28th, 2016

A Sensitive Subject

Sonia Fernandez
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UCSB researchers catalog for the first time patterns of vibration on the skin of the hand that are part of how we sense the world through touch
March 25th, 2016

New Research will Change the Way We Think About Depression. (Finally!)

Hey Sigmund
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The researchers found that depression affects the whole body on a cellular level. When we change the way we think about depression – as an illness of the whole body, not just an illness of the mind – we open up new possibilities for treatment. The body can heal and so can the mind.
March 24th, 2016

Sixth Sense: Science begins to Explain How We Sense Electric Fields

The Mind Unleased
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Scientists are starting to figure out what is going on inside our cells when we sense electrical fields.
March 22nd, 2016

Involvement of astrocytes in neurovascular communication

M. Nuriya*, H. Hirase
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Abstract: Neuroscientists suggest possible functional roles of astrocytes including astrocytic modulation of the vasculature.
March 16th, 2016

Vascular basement membranes as pathways for the passage of fluid into and out of the brain

Alan W. J. Morris · Matthew MacGregor Sharp · Nazira J. Albargothy · Rute Fernandes1 · Cheryl A. Hawkes3 · Ajay Verma · Roy O. Weller1 · Roxana O. Carare
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The objective of this study is to differentiate the cerebral vascular basement membrane pathways by which fluid passes out of the brain from the pathway by which CSF enters the brain.

In the absence of conventional lymphatics, drainage of interstitial fluid and solutes from the brain parenchyma to cervical lymph nodes is along basement membranes in the walls of cerebral capillaries and tunica media of arteries. Perivascular pathways are also involved in the entry of CSF into the brain by the convective influx/ glymphatic system.

 

 Experiment 1: 0.5 µl of soluble biotinylated or fluorescent Aβ, or 1 µl 15 nm gold nanoparticles was injected into the mouse hippocampus and their distributions determined at 5 min by transmission electron microscopy. Aβ was distributed within the extracellular spaces of the hippocampus and within basement membranes of capillaries and tunica media of arteries. Nanoparticles did not enter capillary basement membranes from the extracellular spaces. Experiment 2: 2 µl of 15 nm nanoparticles were injected into mouse CSF. Within 5min, groups of nanoparticles were present in the pial-glial basement membrane on the outer aspect of cortical arteries between the investing layer of pia mater and the glia limitans. The results of this study and previous research suggest that cerebral vascular basement membranes form the pathways by which fluid passes into and out of the brain but that different basement membrane layers are involved. The significance of these findings for neuroimmunology, Alzheimer’s disease, drug delivery to the brain and the concept of the Virchow–Robin space are discussed.

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