Monday, October 8, 2012

Summary News Psychologist.



Good evening, everybody,

today i’m going to make a summary aboout a news that i consider interesting, this news is about a topic that we studie in mi career, psychologist. I hope you enjoy it.

Scientits have created a comprehensive atlas of the adult human brain. This map was created form genetic analyses of about 900 specific parts of brains donated.

Seth Grant, who worke don the map, said that this is like the Rosetta stone for understandig the link between the genome and the brain, in that way, how genetic disorders impact and produce brain disease.

Beside, they say that analysis of the cortex revealed patterns (in gene) that corresponded to regions specific roles in the brain.

Actually, the investigators are working under way on donated tissues from both sexes because they want to check how consistent that genetic blueprint.

The scientists describe how they scanned the donated brains and then chopped them into tinyt, tiny pieces. And for every single lump theyu measured activity levels for all the genes in the human genome.

The investigator mentioned, Grant, said that in the future they’ll try to look to connect the genetic brain atlas with other genetic studies or brain scans of abnormal or diseased brains. This because they say “that could highlight genes that play a role in brain conditions and point the way to drug treatments that dampen down or ramp up gene activity”.

Thanks for reading, see you next J

P.S.: The atlas, which overlays the genetic results on to a 3D image of the brain, is freely available for researchers to use online.

1 comment:

  1. Oh my god! the atlas of a human brain?
    This is amazing! now we can know a little more about this "machine" that creates our mind :B

    Se you latter!!!

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