Quote from: Loozik on June 14, 2013, 12:20:41 AM

Everybody looks at hippocampus...

That's mostly because peer-reviewed granting agencies want the best chance of success when they send you money, and currently the hippocampus is one of the only areas that has consistently shown evidence of new neuron growth throughout life... we suspect that our compounds are working elsewhere as well. Frontal lobes are definitely good candidates...

Quote from: Loozik on June 14, 2013, 12:28:46 AM

The catch is every neuroscience department of a medical university generated the same / similar data. But no effective cure for addiction of this type was found! Find the cure! That would be a breakthrough worth financing. The world wants solutions / cures, not another non-controversial set of data. How do you reduce the damage? Did you discover a medicine for reducing the damage in the brain?

True - this is a finding that keeps emerging across many labs and many experimental models. Although the public (and scientists) want and get excited about "breakthroughs", the fact is that the vast majority of science consists of slowly and methodically confirming / rejecting ideas over and over again until a general consensus begins to emerge. Understanding that many types of brain injuries induce risk-taking behaviors will slowly but surely develop an understanding of the behavior itself. We are using compounds from plants, as well as exercise, to show that a "well-maintained" brain is less susceptible to brain damage and behavioral impairments. This in itself is clearly not a "breakthrough" - however, our experiments are designed to assess the mechanism(s) by which nutrition and exercise impact the brain, which may ultimately lead to breakthroughs about how to treat these disorders.

Quote from: Lethos on June 14, 2013, 12:07:27 AM

Has any of your research (or potential future ones) in the field neurological disorders, cover epilepsy in anyway?

only in the sense that our damage models often induce epileptic seizures. If epilepsy interests you, maybe you could google some scientists working in that area and email them with an offer to donate. I doubt that any scientist with daily lab expenses would turn down such an offer once they realize how easy it is to set up a wallet and exchange account.