Our program helps to reduce drug cravings, controls withdrawal symptoms and
restores normal brain function.
Not exact matches
If we could but
restore or bring about the
normal functioning of
brain cells and nerve tissues, as well as their own subsidiary chemical activity in such cases, then mental life would come flooding back in fullness and richness.
This sensation of pain was previously thought to be caused by abnormal plasticity in the sensorimotor cortex of the
brain, and rehabilitative therapies have focused on
restoring normal motor
function to relieve the pain.
EAVESDROPPING on the
brains of monkeys with hand paralysis has helped
restore near -
normal function.
«It was particularly exciting to see plasticity in the neurons impaired by mHTT,» said Davidson, noting that in the HD mice,
brain areas that had begun to atrophy recovered volume and permitted better motor
function after the researchers
restored mTORC1 activity to more
normal levels.
«We hope that in the future, by fully understanding how this gene affects signaling in the
brain, we may be able to identify drugs to
restore the
normal signaling balance in neurons and improve cognitive and social
function in patients,» says lead author Dr. M. Chiara Manzini.
Plus, there are other drugs being developed and tested that aim to slow or prevent HD in other ways, by helping
restore normal functioning of the
brain in the presence of the mutant huntingtin protein.