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@OUHealth & @OU_Neurosurgery's Neuroscience Grad Prog co-directed by Drs. Smith (@ZacharyASmithMD) & Sherry (@MyOnlyNeuron); Podcast: "Neuroscience Frontier"

Oklahoma City, OK Katılım Mart 2021
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Danielle Beckman
Danielle Beckman@DaniBeckman·
Brain microscopy with annotations for better understanding ☺️! What if we take a deep dive into the cerebral sulcus? The grey matter has the neurons' cell bodies🔵, and while microglia🟣are more evenly distributed, astrocytes🟡shape changes in the white matter. #Neuroscience
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Louisa Nicola
Louisa Nicola@louisanicola_·
Exercise is a brain drug. Here’s the biology behind it New review in Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience breaks down how exercise boosts brain BDNF, the key molecule for learning and memory. What matters most: 1. Exercise reliably increases brain BDNF, a driver of neuroplasticity and neurogenesis 2. BDNF supports memory, learning, mood, and stress resilience 3. Blocking BDNF signaling removes many cognitive benefits of exercise How exercise raises BDNF: 4) Neuronal activity increases calcium signaling and gene expression 5) Increased cerebral blood flow activates endothelial BDNF production 6) Muscle and liver release exerkines like lactate, irisin, IGF-1, and ketones that signal the brain 7) Brain BDNF comes from neurons, blood vessels, and peripheral organs working together Exercise isn’t just movement, it’s a whole body signal that rewires the brain from the inside out.
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Adam Grant
Adam Grant@AdamMGrant·
Success is not about finishing everything you start. It’s about knowing when to grit and when to quit. 235 studies: When people adjust their goals and plans in the face of challenges, they make more progress—and feel less depressed and anxious. The ultimate flex is flexibility.
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OU Neuroscience@OUNeuroscience·
@OUNeuroscience alumni at work!! Way to go @RafalGulej!! @OU_Neurosurgery @OUbabybrainMD @zacharyasmithmd @zoltan_ungvari
GeroScience@GeroScienceAGE

📢 New Open🔓 Access Article Alert “Irradiation-induced brain senescence accelerates cardiac aging via systemic mechanisms: insights from transcriptomic profiling” by Rafal Gulej (@RafalGulej) & Zoltán Ungvári (@zoltan_ungvari) et al. 👉 rdcu.be/eRKoK Key Insights: 📌Brain irradiation in mice induces cellular senescence, triggering systemic molecular changes. 📌Transcriptomic analysis shows that this brain senescence activates pathways that lead to cardiac aging, including inflammation and extracellular matrix remodeling. 📌The study suggests that brain aging can drive heart aging, supporting the concept that aging in one organ system can propagate to others through circulating factors. Why It Matters: This work reveals a crucial brain-heart aging axis, highlighting that targeting brain senescence may have protective effects on cardiac aging — a potentially novel interventional strategy in geroscience. #Aging #Senescence #CardiovascularAging #Geroscience #BrainHeartAxis

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Stefano Tarantini
Stefano Tarantini@StefanoT_PhD·
Huge congrats to @_JenniferIhuoma for Best Student Abstract and talk at the crossroads of dyslipidemia & mitochondrial aging, and to @SherwinTavakol at the @OUneuroscience Symposium. Proud and grateful for the teamwork that made this possible. Team science at its best!👏🧠
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Andrew Jea
Andrew Jea@OUbabybrainMD·
Grateful for the opportunity to visit with our EM colleagues this morning at @OUHealth. Really excited to see the culture that @Dr_AzeemAhmed and his brand new @OUCollegeofMed department are creating, and the great things they will accomplish as a team.
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Zachary A. Smith, M.D.
Zachary A. Smith, M.D.@zacharyasmithmd·
Way to go our friend and colleague @JeffreyZuccato and @OU_Neurosurgery on this award!! Great to see. (And to mentor @gelarehzadeh)
gelareh-zadeh@gelarehzadeh

extremely proud of my student, now colleague from afar- ⁦@JeffreyZuccato⁩ ⁦@OU_Neurosurgery⁩ presenting work done ⁦@UofTNeuroSurge⁩ ⁦@UofTSurgery⁩ Thank you ⁦@theABTA⁩ ⁦@NeuroOnc⁩ for recognition of the work published ⁦@NatureMedicine⁩

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University of Oklahoma Neurosurgery
University of Oklahoma Neurosurgery@OU_Neurosurgery·
Congrats @SherwinTavakol and @_JenniferIhuoma. Absolutely amazing talks during the symposium and fantastic research!!! And to your mentor @StefanoT_PhD.
Stefano Tarantini@StefanoT_PhD

Huge congrats to @_JenniferIhuoma for Best Student Abstract and talk at the crossroads of dyslipidemia & mitochondrial aging, and to @SherwinTavakol at the @OUneuroscience Symposium. Proud and grateful for the teamwork that made this possible. Team science at its best!👏🧠

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OU Neuroscience@OUNeuroscience·
Congrats to Jeng Shi Kong of Dr Yabulchansky laboratory, winner of the number one abstract in our symposium!!! Great talk and data!
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Zachary A. Smith, M.D.
Zachary A. Smith, M.D.@zacharyasmithmd·
Learning from SCI from an absolute expert on this topic, Dr Michael Fehlings from U. Toronto one of our keynote speakers on spinal injury and repair. @OU_Neurosurgery @OUNeuroscience
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