Method To Repair Damaged Adult Nerves Discovered

An anonymous reader writes "Researchers have discovered a promising method to regrow damaged nerves in adults. Brain and spinal-cord injuries typically leave people with permanent impairment because the injured nerve fibers (axons) cannot regrow. A study from Harvard and Carleton University, published in the December 10 issue of the journal Neuron, shows that axons can regenerate vigorously in a mouse model when a gene that suppresses natural growth factors is deleted. Here is the journal article (subscription required to view more than the abstract)."

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Re:nerve growth unsuppressed == tumors?

[hesaigo999ca]

>These sensations range from moderately intense to maximally intense

You know, with this type of affliction, even though temporary, would lead me to conduct
my own experiment, had you tried stimulating her clitoris while this was in effect happening,
I wonder if the sensations being maximized, would have overpowered all others
and made the only sensation that which was the most pleasing (due to the endorphins)

Re:nerve growth unsuppressed == tumors?

[BJ_Covert_Action]

had you tried stimulating her clitoris while this was in effect happening....

Perhaps you really are so very interested in the neuroscience that this seems, to you, like a pragmatic and reasonable 'experiement.' However, the parent post mentioned later in his discussion that the lady is undergoing, from time to time, experiences equivalent to feeling your skull crushed or your face deeply cut time and again. 'Offering' to conduct an experiment during these types of experiences by means of sexually stimulating a part of her genitalia seems tasteless at best.

There is a place and time for crude humor, or even just sexual humor, but regarding a serious neuro-disability and the painful hell a person is going through to cope with it is neither that time nor place. If you sincerely feel the need to induce an endorphin effect on a girl while she is undergoing intense pain, perhaps next time you should consider stimulating something other than her genitalia, as that just sounds perverse ... even for the internet.