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Adult Brain Can Become Young And Flexible Again By Molecular Switch

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Rehabilitation after brain injuries like strokes requires that patients re-learn tasks such as moving a hand. Researchers found that adult mice lacking Nogo Receptor recovered from injury as quickly as adolescent mice and mastered new, complex motor …
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Techin In: Resetting The Human Brain

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The study demonstrated that adult mice lacking the nogo receptor, or those test subjects which had the gene blocked, were able to recover from injury just as efficiently as adolescents. These mice were amazingly also able to master complex motor tasks …
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Angela Carella: One woman's fight against Big Insurance

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In March 2011, his family brought him to the Caron Adolescent Treatment Center in Pennsylvania. "The people at Caron told us, `Your insurance company will deny you coverage for this, so persevere,' " Markey … Her son's treatment in a residential …
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Virtual Reality Applications to Address the Wounds of War

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… impairments;2,21 functional skill training and motor rehabilitation with patients having central nervous system dysfunction (eg, stroke, traumatic brain injury, spinal cord injury, cerebral palsy, multiple sclerosis, etc);4,22 and for the …
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