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Nature Medicine 12, 884–885 (1 August 2006) | doi:10.1038/nm0806-884

Turning neurogenesis up a Notch

David A Greenberg & Kunlin Jin

Most individuals improve to some extent in the weeks to months after a stroke, but many are left with deficits severe enough to preclude return to independent function. One goal of neurological research is to harness the brain's innate capacity for repair to achieve better outcome in stroke and other brain diseases.