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Shocking New Therapy For Stroke Recovery

About every 40 seconds, someone somewhere has a stroke. Every four minutes, someone dies from a stroke. They can strike anytime and affect anyone. Now scientists at the University of Texas at Dallas are studying a new way to help stroke survivors regain any physical abilities that were lost after a stroke. Daniel Hulsey, a Ph.D. student of cognitive neuroscience at UT Dallas said, “We want to be able to restore that function by restoring circuitry in the brain.” To accomplish this, researchers turned their attention to the vagus nerve, the nerve that tells the brain how the body is doing. “When you stimulate this nerve, you send a signal up into the brain that [indicates] what just happened is really interesting and important,” said Michael Kilgard, a neuroscientist at UT Dallas. When electrical pulses stimulate the nerve, the brain releases chemicals from different areas and essentially re-organizes itself. This enables the brain to learn new tasks. **************************************************** Inside Science is an editorially independent news service of the American Institute of Physics Connect with us: Inside Science Website: https://www.insidescience.org Facebook:   / insidescience   Twitter:   / insidescience   American Institute of Physics Website: https://www.aip.org/