{"id":268652,"date":"2017-09-14T14:17:01","date_gmt":"2017-09-14T18:17:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/?p=268652"},"modified":"2024-05-29T15:15:42","modified_gmt":"2024-05-29T19:15:42","slug":"rebooting-brain-better-vision-stroke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/rebooting-brain-better-vision-stroke\/","title":{"rendered":"Quadcast: Rebooting the brain for better vision after a stroke"},"content":{"rendered":"

Editor\u2019s note: As of 2024, the therapy discussed below remains experimental and is available only as part of a clinical trial. You can register via ClinicalTrials.gov<\/a> or email christine_callan@urmc.rochester.edu<\/a> to find out more about ongoing or upcoming trials.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Maybe you\u2019ve recently suffered a stroke and are now starting therapy, trying to regain speech, motor functions, and possibly improve memory. But your vision is damaged, too, and there\u2019s no therapy available.<\/p>\n

Yet.<\/p>\n

Krystel Huxlin<\/a>, director of research and the James V. Aquavella Professor of Ophthalmology at the University of Rochester Medical Center\u2019s Flaum Eye Institute, has been working in her lab<\/a> over the last ten years to change that. Here\u2019s how she sums up her latest results, published earlier this year in the journal Neurology<\/em><\/a>:<\/p>\n

\u201cIf people do exactly what we tell them and they don\u2019t cheat, the success rate has been in our hands a 100 percent.\u201d<\/p>\n