Caregivers’ support is crucial to mitigating negative effects of poverty. Poverty impacts brain development negatively. But if parents provide adequate support they can ameliorate those effects. Reference: Luby J., et al. The Effects of Poverty on Childhood Brain Development. JAMA Pediatr, published online October 28, 2013. Poverty has a deleterious effect on child development and neurocognitive […]
Author Archives: Elisenda Cortes Saladelafont
4 posts published by Elisenda Cortes Saladelafont
Un libro puede quedar grabado en tu cerebro
Long- and short-term changes can be seen in brain connectivity after reading a novel Brooklyn Art Library by Joel Zimmer on Flickr. “It seems plausible that if something as simple as a book can leave the impression that one’s life has been changed, then perhaps it is powerful enough to cause changes in brain function […]
Interneuronas, GABA y enfermedades neuropediátricas
What do you know about interneurons? Which processes do you think they regulate? How could dysfunction in interneurons and abnormal gabaergic transmission contribute to the pathophysiology of some neuropaediatric disorders? Interneurons were classically described as short-axon neurons with connections between “input” and “output” principal cells and were recognized for their role in modulating excitability via […]
Mitochondrial mobilization controls plasticity and axon formation
LKB1, NUAK1 and SNPH are proteins related to those proceses Courchet, J., et al. Terminal axon branching is regulated by LKB1-NUAK1 kinase pathway via presynaptic mitochondrial capture. Cell. 2013 (153):1510-1525 Sun, T., et al. Motile Axonal Mitochondria Contribute to the Variability of Presynaptic Strength. Cell Reports. August 2013 (4):1-7. Axon formation, presynaptic strength and […]
