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Common medicine helps repair brain after stroke, study in rats suggests

October 3, 2012 by

Post-stroke inflammation slows down recovery and impairs brain plasticity, reveal new results. The popular anti-inflammatory drug ibuprofen restores the ability of brain cortex to reorganize – a process necessary for recovery of stroke-damaged functions.

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