Alexander Gow, a Wayne State University School of Medicine professor,
is pushing forward research into a number of neurodegenerative
diseases, such as autism and schizophrenia.
His latest research,
published in the Journal of Cell Biology, sheds light on why these
diseases develop and how they might be treated.
It basically
breaks down to the white and gray matter in the brain and how they
communicate. Those lines of communications that send signals for
everything from sneezing to wiggling a toe sometimes fail. Gow's
research shows that a leak in the myelin sheath of these communication
lines might play a part in developing diseases like autism and
schizophrenia.
Although far from a cure, if further research
shows this is the case, it could give scientists a big clue on how to
treat and possibly prevent such diseases.
Source: Wayne State University
Writer: Jon Zemke
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