British researchers report unprecedented success in resprouting damaged nerves in rat brains.
The process involves inhibiting the growth of scar tissue that prevents nerve regeneration. Scientists are learning how to manipulate the brain in new ways to restore lost or abnormal function. Medicine is making breakthroughs in transplanting, stimulating, and removing brain cells and in reprogramming the brain by learning techniques not thought possible in people with neurological disorders. The director of the Center for Brain Health at the University of Texas in Dallas, Sandra Chapman, told a science conference recently of a new era in brain repair. Maybe the possibilities can help us to bring the brain back to normal or near normal function after brain injury.