{"id":28936,"date":"2018-02-19T01:01:01","date_gmt":"2018-02-19T00:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/02\/19\/scientists-seek-drug-to-rewire-adult-brain-after-stroke\/"},"modified":"2018-02-19T01:01:01","modified_gmt":"2018-02-19T00:01:01","slug":"scientists-seek-drug-to-rewire-adult-brain-after-stroke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=28936","title":{"rendered":"Scientists seek drug to \u2018rewire\u2019 adult brain after stroke"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Therapies may one day enable healthy part of brain to take over tasks from damaged areas Adults who have experienced a stroke may one day be able to take a drug to help their brain \u201crewire\u201d itself, so that tasks once carried out by now-damaged areas can be taken over by other regions, researchers have claimed.The ability for the brain to rewire, so-called \u201cbrain plasticity\u201d, is thought to occur throughout life; however, while children have a high degree of brain plasticity, adult brains are generally thought to be less plastic. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/2018\/feb\/19\/scientists-seek-drug-to-rewire-adult-brain-after-stroke\" target=\"_blank\">Scientists seek drug to \u2018rewire\u2019 adult brain after stroke<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Therapies may one day enable healthy part of brain to take over tasks from damaged areas Adults who have experienced a stroke may one day be able to take a drug to help their brain \u201crewire\u201d itself, so that tasks once carried out by now-damaged areas can be taken over [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28936\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}