{"id":212336,"date":"2025-04-24T13:31:43","date_gmt":"2025-04-24T18:31:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/new-neurons-may-reverse-damage-in-huntingtons-disease"},"modified":"2025-04-24T13:31:43","modified_gmt":"2025-04-24T18:31:43","slug":"new-neurons-may-reverse-damage-in-huntingtons-disease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/new-neurons-may-reverse-damage-in-huntingtons-disease","title":{"rendered":"New neurons may reverse damage in Huntington\u2019s disease"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-neurons-may-reverse-damage-in-huntingtons-disease.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>New research shows that the adult brain can generate new neurons that integrate into key motor circuits. The findings demonstrate that stimulating natural brain processes may help repair damaged neural networks in Huntington\u2019s and other diseases.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur research shows that we can encourage the brain\u2019s own cells to grow new neurons that join in naturally with the circuits controlling movement,\u201d said a senior author of the study, which appears in the journal <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.celrep.2025.115440\">Cell Reports<\/a>. \u201cThis discovery offers a potential new way to restore brain function and slow the progression of these diseases.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It was long believed that the adult brain could not generate new neurons. However, it is now understood that niches in the brain contain reservoirs of progenitor cells capable of producing new neurons. While these cells actively produce neurons during early development, they switch to producing support cells called glia shortly after birth. One of the areas of the brain where these cells congregate is the ventricular zone, which is adjacent to the striatum, a region of the brain devastated by Huntington\u2019s disease.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New research shows that the adult brain can generate new neurons that integrate into key motor circuits. The findings demonstrate that stimulating natural brain processes may help repair damaged neural networks in Huntington\u2019s and other diseases. \u201cOur research shows that we can encourage the brain\u2019s own cells to grow new neurons that join in naturally [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-212336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212336\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}