Stroke: Can Stimulating the Brain Recapture Lost Function?

1,840 views · Published 4 January 2017 · 0:55 · Indexed 22 September 2026

Channel: Cleveland Clinic · 2017 · Science & Technology

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Can sending electrical impulses deep within the brain help partially paralyzed stroke survivors move again? That’s a question Cleveland Clinic researchers hope to answer in a pioneering study funded by the National Institutes of Health.

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