Increasing Orgasm and Decreasing Dyspareunia by a Manual Physical Therapy Technique

Stem cells, neurogenesis, and repair — this powerful combination of words announces how far neuroscience has come in the past few years in the search for new venues of treatment,[1-4] forecasting tissue repair in brains damaged by stroke or in spinal cords injured by trauma.[5] Replacement of selected cell populations is also being proposed and investigated for Parkinson's disease or Alzheimer's disease,[6-8] neurodegenerative diseases affecting mostly adults in the later decades of their lives. But what are we doing for infants and children with cerebral palsy or developmental disability, congenital defects of their central nervous system (CNS) that severely impair execution of many functions? Notwithstanding all the efforts of their caregivers, quality of life for these young subjects can be, at times, substantially compromised; even more so when they age and develop secondary complications. Many advances have been made in their management and rehabilitation. Yet, often these children's life expectancies are lower than those of their peers.[9] Cerebral palsy and developmental disabilities are conditions that affect children from all countries and all ethnic backgrounds. It is estimated that there are at least 14 million children living with these diseases in the United States alone. Is there a way to give them a second chance? These issues were addressed at a symposium held during the 33rd Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, in New Orleans, Louisiana, entitled: “Stem Cells and Pediatric Disorders: Forging New Paths to Progress” under the auspices of the Children's Neurobiological Solutions foundation. Neuroscience is, nowadays, certainly one of the “hottest” research fields in biomedicine. Will the hopes raised indeed meet their promise? Three leading researchers who are experts in cutting-edge research on brain repair using stem cells, Dr. Evan Snyder, Dr. Nick Gaiano, and Dr. Martha Windrem, gave an overview of the state of the art in this field, outlining successes and limitations of the strategies that are currently being evaluated in experimental animal systems.