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The glial-neuron relationship is an interesting one, and far from fully understood at this time. New things turn up on a regular basis, such as this fascinating
by reasonattlm 12y ago
The glial-neuron relationship is an interesting one, and far from fully understood at this time. New things turn up on a regular basis, such as this fascinating insight regarding cooperative mitochondrial disposal:
http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/41275/title/Mitochondria-Munchers/ http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/41275/...
Glial cells may turn out to be a good source of new neurons. Since they are generated at a fairly fast past, one approach to increasing neural plasticity is to reprogram glia into neurons rather than try to boost neurogenesis directly. This is just one of several groups I've seen of late working on that:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/11/141120123136.htm http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/11/141120123136.ht...
- aespinoza 12y agoI also find it interesting. Specially in history. In his book: "The Root of Thought" (http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-root-of-thought-what/ http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-root-of-though...) Dr. Andrew Koob, talks about the importance of Glial cells and the possibility of it being responsible for consciousness. I think with the new technological innovations in the field of Neuroscience we might get a better understanding of what these cells actually do in the human brain, other than "glue" things together.