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Breakthrough stroke drug heals the brain to restore movement
There's newfound hope for stroke patients in recovery, with what researchers believe is the very first drug that can comprehensively deliver rehabilitation without the need for challenging long-term physical therapy.
It's a milestone in medical research, largely because there's no drug that has proven effective in rehabilitation, leaving patients with only physical therapy to help rebuild the brain's signaling pathways in order to recover motor function. “The goal is to have a medicine that stroke patients can take that produces the effects of rehabilitation,” said lead author Dr S. Thomas Carmichael, professor and chair of UCLA Neurology. The researchers found that stroke cut off communication with parvalbumin neuron cells, which play a vital role in brain function and an individual's behavior – including movement.
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