Recent content by Nick McConnell

Interesting. Should this be a concern with the study that says they restored hearing using Nt3? Is it possible that the reconnected synapses in the study were not meaningful in terms of hearing restoration? Or am I confused about something?

Found another article that might be useful: http://www.buffalo.edu/news/releases/1998/02/3026.html " They also found that the damaged nerve endings that transmit impulses from hair cells to the brain can recover from injury, but at a significantly slower rate than the brain. " It might be...

Perhaps not. Nt3 can still cause regeneration and exercise can apparently increase nt3 in the spine: https://www.ibp.ucla.edu/research/GomezPinilla/publications/Exc93.pdf http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11285004 I don't know if it increases it in the brain as well. And people with...

I wonder if there is another way to increase nt3 production.

I would encourage you or anyone else to proceed with caution if you want to try the drug combination in the fourth link. Both olanzapine and fluoxetine are ototoxic for some people: http://hearinglosshelp.com/blog/fluoxetine-tinnitus-and-hearing-loss/...

If you look at the third link, it says at one point that BDNF is necessary to maintain the synapses in the ear but that it doesn't seem to take a partin regenerating them. I seem to have missed that before I posted the last link.

The nerves in the ears are connected to the peripheral nervous system: http://www.merckmanuals.com/home/brain,-spinal-cord,-and-nerve-disorders/peripheral-nerve-disorders/overview-of-the-peripheral-nervous-system Nerve synapses in the peripheral nervous system have potential to regenerate...