# The brain may be able to repair itself -- with help

- Institution: TED
- Department: TEDGlobal>Geneva
- Speaker: Jocelyne Bloch
- Year: 2015
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Biology, Medicine and health, Psychology and the brain
- Source: [TED](https://www.ted.com/talks/jocelyne_bloch_the_brain_may_be_able_to_repair_itself_with_help)
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions.)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

Through treating everything from strokes to car accident traumas, neurosurgeon Jocelyne Bloch knows the brain's inability to repair itself all too well. But now, she suggests, she and her colleagues may have found the key to neural repair: Doublecortin-positive cells. Similar to stem cells, they are extremely adaptable and, when extracted from a brain, cultured and then re-injected in a lesioned area of the same brain, they can help repair and rebuild it. "With a little help," Bloch says, "the brain may be able to help itself."

## Lectures

1. [The brain may be able to repair itself -- with help](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/ted/jocelyne_bloch_the_brain_may_be_able_to_repair_itself_with_help/b904a7e3ba51), 12 min (TED's player)