Study Shows How Social Support May Protect Brain During Stroke

Tuesday, November 25, 2008 - 13:36 in Health & Medicine

New research in mice suggests that high levels of social support may provide some protection against strokes by reducing the amount of damaging inflammation in the brain. Researchers found that male mice that lived with a female partner before and after a stroke had a much higher survival rate compared to those mice that lived alone.

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