{"id":22772,"date":"2016-02-25T17:48:07","date_gmt":"2016-02-26T01:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/researchers-use-brains-plasticity-to-treat-movement-disorder-dystonia-help-stroke-survivors"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:08:52","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:08:52","slug":"researchers-use-brains-plasticity-to-treat-movement-disorder-dystonia-help-stroke-survivors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/researchers-use-brains-plasticity-to-treat-movement-disorder-dystonia-help-stroke-survivors","title":{"rendered":"Researchers use brain\u2019s plasticity to treat movement disorder dystonia, help stroke survivors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researchers-use-brains-plasticity-to-treat-movement-disorder-dystonia-help-stroke-survivors.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Interesting research and maybe a new twist for Dystonia.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Exactly what triggers dystonia \u2014 an involuntary muscle contraction of the hand, fingers, neck or mouth, which is sometimes very painful \u2014 is unclear. But some researchers think the underlying problem that causes it may also be the key to treating it, and other brain-linked disorders like Parkinson\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/health\/researchers-hope-brain-s-plasticity-can-be-used-to-treat-disorders-1.3462694\">http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/health\/researchers-hope-brain-s-plast...-1.3462694<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting research and maybe a new twist for Dystonia. Exactly what triggers dystonia \u2014 an involuntary muscle contraction of the hand, fingers, neck or mouth, which is sometimes very painful \u2014 is unclear. But some researchers think the underlying problem that causes it may also be the key to treating it, and other brain-linked disorders [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22772","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\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22772"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68244,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22772\/revisions\/68244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}