Pint of Science May 19th-21st @ Wearies - Reading & Building Minds
Wed, May 21
|Wearies (Parking in Back)
https://pintofscience.us/event/reading-and-rebuilding-minds
Time & Location
May 21, 2025, 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Wearies (Parking in Back), 2819 Pico Blvd, Santa Monica, CA 90405, USA
About the event
Get your tickets here: https://pintofscience.us/event/reading-and-rebuilding-minds
Can new technology enable us to make sense of people’s thoughts? Can it assist brain rewiring after brain injuries? Come join us for an evening where we’ll explore how the AI revolution has assisted research to read deep into people’s minds and how innovative new therapy approaches can help patients recover after stroke.
Brain Repair After Stroke
Steven Cramer (MD & Professor at UCLA)
Stroke is a common cause of disability. Treatments provided in the ER can help, but most people with stroke do not receive these. A new family of therapies is emerging, with a focus on repairing the brain. These therapies build on the brain’s own processes for restoring function. Many types of therapy are under study, including drugs, cells, growth factors, and electric or magnetic stimulation. Intensive practice is also under study and is of double importance, first as a therapy in…