Discussion - Stem Cells and Repairing The Brain July 5, 2009

Stem Cells and Repairing The Brain : Are there stem cells in your brain? If so what do they do? How will this change treatment of brain disorders? Lets chat about the hope and the hype!. Vidita Vaidya, did her BSc at St Xavier's College in Mumbai and spent many an evening chomping down on the famous brownies at Prithvi. She got her PhD at Yale in Neuroscience and hopped her way back across the oceans via Oxford University and Karolinska Institute in Stockholm. She has been back in Mumbai at TIFR since 2000. She works on the neurobiology of mood and the role of stem cells in psychiatric disorders.

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