The treatment of stroke has been crippled for many years by the complexity of the brain’s response and promising but failed therapies. The only current treatment of stroke is tissue plasminogen activator and which benefit only a small percentage of patients. However, new developments in basic neuroscience have produced various potential therapies for brain repair after a stroke. These include stem-cell therapy, glial and primary neuronal transplantation, use-dependent plasticity, trophic factors, strategies for axon regeneration, robotics, stimulation, constrained-induced physical therapy, and cognitive approaches.
To underline the recent progress in the field of brain repair after stroke and to gain a solid understanding of emerging therapies, top-ranking neuroscientists from all over the world with vast experience in numerous research domains, were invited to contribute to a special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417, IF 2.838), named ". Prof Valentino has been regularly serving as an abstract reviewer for the International Stroke Conference that is hosted by the American Heart Association since 2015.
On a similar note, in collaboration with Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience (IF 6.147, CiteScore 8.4), Prof Valentino and Dr Zammit are also editing another article collection entitled ‘’. Recognizing the future leaders of Cellular Neuropathology is fundamental to safeguarding tomorrow's driving force in innovation. The aim of this collection is to showcase the high quality work of internationally recognized researchers in their early stage of their careers and across the entire breadth of research in neuropathology including new diagnostic applications that aim to solve compelling problems and therapies.
