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A major new academic study is set to examine how the brain reacts to sudden physiological changes and it is hoped that it could shed new light on the recovery process after a brain injury.

Academics from Stanford University will lead the study alongside other researchers from Brown University, UC-San Francisco and University College London.

The project is entitled Repair (Reorganisation and Plasticity to Accelerate Injury Recovery) and has received $14.9 million (£10 million) in US federal state funding.

It will benefit from multidisciplinary expertise, crossing such fields as electrical engineering, neuroscience and machine learning.

The scientists will be assessing how the brain can operate by navigating signals around damaged tissue, in much the same principle as with a heart bypass operation.

Meanwhile, researchers at Johns Hopkins University say an ingredient in dark chocolate could provide some protection against brain injury following a stroke.

They revealed that rats given a modest dose of epicatechin before having a stroke experienced less brain damage than rodents not given the compound.

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