STROKE
Many current medical strategies for helping stroke victims focus on reducing the amount of damage that is done when the stroke occurs. After the stroke, patients usually suffer a loss of function of the parts of their body that the damaged region of their brain used to control. However, the brain has an amazing ability to repair itself. It does so by reorganizing the way it is wired, so that the parts of the brain that are still healthy can pick up doing the functions that used to be done by the parts that were lost. The process by which this occurs is very similar to what happens as you learn and remember new things. The parts of the brain that die during a stroke can never be recovered. However if we can help the brain to reorganize itself, we hope to help people recover the abilities that they lost. Regaining their physical capacities would be the most direct way to assist patients who have suffered a stroke.
FROM BASIC PRINCIPLES
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