{"id":200800,"date":"2024-12-04T22:23:10","date_gmt":"2024-12-05T04:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/thalamus-degeneration-found-to-impact-stroke-recovery"},"modified":"2024-12-04T22:23:10","modified_gmt":"2024-12-05T04:23:10","slug":"thalamus-degeneration-found-to-impact-stroke-recovery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/thalamus-degeneration-found-to-impact-stroke-recovery","title":{"rendered":"Thalamus degeneration found to impact stroke recovery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/thalamus-degeneration-found-to-impact-stroke-recovery3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A recent study by the Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care reveals that an area of the brain distinct from the stroke lesion may play a significant role in causing the life-altering symptoms with which survivors are often left, which can include severe challenges with speech, mobility and cognition. These results provide hope that innovative, non-invasive treatments could help improve or even fully reverse post-stroke symptoms.<\/p>\n<p>Strokes (which more than 100,000 Canadians suffer every year) leave behind an area where brain cells have died, called a lesion. However, this cannot explain the widespread consequences of <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/stroke\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">stroke<\/a>, limiting scientists\u2019 and clinicians\u2019 ability to treat them.<\/p>\n<p>The study, titled \u201cSecondary thalamic dysfunction underlies abnormal large-scale neural dynamics in chronic stroke,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/pnas.org\/doi\/10.1073\/pnas.2409345121\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in the journal <i>Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences<\/i>, reveals that degeneration of the thalamus\u2014an area of the brain distinct from the stroke lesion\u2014is a significant contributor to post-stroke symptoms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent study by the Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care reveals that an area of the brain distinct from the stroke lesion may play a significant role in causing the life-altering symptoms with which survivors are often left, which can include severe challenges with speech, mobility and cognition. These results provide hope that innovative, non-invasive [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1522,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-200800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-innovation","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200800\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}