“…"While it’s no secret that the NFL is essentially in the business of TBI, the exact link between those injuries and CTE has never been identified. Without that link, the NFL remains largely in the clear. But on October 17, a study published in Nature Communications, led by Harvard Medical School’s....“INVERSE. Read more…

“…"In a paper published in Nature Communications, researchers at Harvard Medical School linked expression of the cis isomer of phosphorylated tau (cis p-tau) with clinical outcomes in patients with traumatic brain injury (TBI) and showed targeting the protein could help treat neuropathology after TBI....“BIOCentury. Read more…

“…"Cette étude est la première et la seule qui a renversé les processus de vieillissement du cerveau, autant sur le plan génétique que comportemental", s'est enthousiasmé un des Docteur y ayant participé, Onder Albayram, dans un échange de courriels avec VICE...“ VICE News. Read more…

“…“It’s like the brain goes back to the good old days, when the animals were younger and the cannabinoid system was higher in activity,” said Albayram, who now works at Harvard Medical School. Once again, they found THC had the opposite effect in young mice, inducing gene expression patterns typical of aged animals...“ Alzheimer's Forum. Read more…

“…The daily low dosage of THC also seemed to protect against, and even reverse, signs of aging in the brains of older rats. Previous research has shown that the brain's cannabis receptors might be related to brain health. The researchers want to explore the impact of THC on older human brains later this year...“ ABC News. Read more…

“…Research published Monday in Nature Medicine suggests that one of marijuana’s active ingredients, THC, could have the magical power of helping to preserve the memories and learning abilities of mouse brains as they age. Co-lead author Onder Albayram, now a researcher at Harvard Medical School, and his colleagues administered low doses of THC to mice for 28 days...“ INVERSE. Read more…

“…But new research published this week in Nature Medicine suggests the drug might affect older users very differently than young ones—at least in mice. Instead of impairing learning and memory as it does in young people, the drug appears to reverse age-related declines in the cognitive performance of elderly mice.“ Scientific American. Read more…

“…Der Rezeptor scheint dabei, das Gehirn zu schützen: „Wenn wir ihn mit gentechnischen Methodn ausschalten, dann verläuft die Alterung der Mäusegehirne viel schneller“, sagt Önder Albayram, Erstautor der Publikation vom Institut für Molekulare Psychiatrie der Universität Bonn.” FOCUS Magazine. Read more…

“…Researchers have discovered a mechanism that seems to protect the brain from aging. In experiments with mice, they switched off the cannabinoid-1 receptor. As a consequence, the animals showed signs of degeneration -- as seen in people with dementia -- much faster.” ScienceDaily. Read more…

“…Marijuana isn't exactly known as a cognitive enhancer but a new review suggests that the active ingredients in marijuana hold promise for preventing— or even reversing— brain aging and possibly Alzheimer's and other degenerative brain diseases.” TIME Magazine. Read more…

“…Researchers from Germany found that the brain's cannabinoid system is fully capable of not only cleansing damaged brain cells from the brain, but also triggering the production of new brain cells, a concept that contradicts years of conventional thinking about how the brain works.“ Natural News.  Read more…

“…This study has begun to open the door to solving this enigma. The animals with the intact CB1 receptor did clearly better with regard to their learning and memory capabilities, as well as the health of their nerve cells. "The root cause of aging is one of the secrets of life," commented Albayram.“ Medical News. Read more…

"...New research provides by investigators at Harvard shows a potential pathway to a drug to save people from the progressive damage of concussions. Lu and his colleagues developed antibodies that bind to either the normal or misshapen tau only, and used them to study their relative levels in the brains of deceased football players and military veterans who had suffered from CTE." MIT Technology Review. Read more…

“…A group of Harvard scientists has figured out how to undo early damage to a protein that leads to Alzheimer's and the lasting effects of brain injuries – at least in mice. Now they are trying to do the same in people. The researchers identified a protein that changes shape when a mouse's brain is damaged by trauma, according to a study published Wednesday in the journal Nature.” USA TODAY. Read more…