Mouse brain rewires its neural circuits to recuperate from damaged neural function after stroke

Friday, August 21, 2009 - 09:49 in Biology & Nature

Japanese research group led by Professor Junichi Nabekura in National Institute for Physiological Sciences, NIPS, Japan, found that, after cerebral stroke in one side of the mouse brain, another side of the brain rewires its neural circuits to recuperate from damaged neural function. The Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) supported this study.

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