AGING OF THE

BRAIN
TAKING AWARENESS ABOUT
HOW IMPORTANT IS TAKING
CARE ABOUT OUR MIND.
Riga , 2013

Pablo Garca Ruiz (erasmus)

THE PROBLEM
The aging brain is one of the vital
processes that cause major effects on
human health, for the obvious importance
of this organ is to the proper functioning
of our body and even our mental balance.
Also we need to know how and why the
brain ages and, derived from this, if there
is a way to stop this decline, is a source of
important research in contemporary
neuroscience.

HYPOTHESIS

My hypothesis consists in demostrate

how is possible to get young the brain,
through a scientific method, that is about
an alteration in the gene Nodo 1.

Also avoiding bad habits as alcohol or

drugs, and eating healthy food we can
conservate the normal growing age of the
brain.

INVESTIGATION

Recently researchers at the

Medicine University of Yale
have identified a gene in the
brain of rats is causing the
loss of plasticity in adult
brains.
As is known, the plasticity is
the ability to learn new
things, to create new synaptic
connections and also to
recover more easily and
promptly brain injury.

According to this study, the activity of Nodo

receptor 1 suppresses the plasticity of the
adult brain, for this removing the genetic
script that resulted in reaching this age, the
rats with which they experienced maintained
plasticity levels his youth.

But even more surprising is that even in the

case of adult, block the operation of this gene
reset your brain, returning the plasticity of
the adolescent age.

According to one of the pioneers of the

investigation, Stephen Strittmatter, the
function of this gene is to synthesize "the
molecules that the brain needs to transition
from adolescence to adulthood", for its part
Vincent Coates, it added that this "suggests
that we can turn back the clock of a adult
brain and recover from trauma in the same
way that children recover."

The finding presents an optimistic picture for

those who have suffered some type of brain
injury, which in most cases causes a person
to have to relearn again operations, such as
hand movement is basic believe. If the
results of this research can be extended to
humans, this feedback would be significantly
faster.

CONCLUSION

As we want to demostrate in the hypothesis,

as we can see in the results of the scientific
operations in the rats, its possible the
recover the young brain through the
plasticity.

We know a lot about early brain

development, but surprisingly little of what
happens with this in late adolescence.

THANKS FOR YOU

ATTENTION!!