Hongyun Huang, Almudena Ramon-Cueto, Wagih El Masri, Gustavo A Moviglia, Hooshang Saberi, Hari Shanker Sharma, Ali Otom, Lin Chen, Dario Siniscalco, Anna Sarnowska
Neurorestoratology constitutes a novel discipline aimed at the restoration of damaged neural structures and impaired neurological functions. This area of knowledge integrates and compiles all concepts and strategies dealing with the neurorestoration. Although currently, this discipline has already been well recognized by physicians and scientists throughout the world, this article aimed at broadening its knowledge to the academic circle and the public society. Here we shortly introduced why and how Neurorestoratology was born since the fact that the central nervous system (CNS) can be repaired and the subsequent scientific evidence of the neurorestorative mechanisms behind, such as neurostimulation or neuromodulation, neuroprotection, neuroplasticity, neurogenesis, neuroregeneration or axonal regeneration or sprouting, neuroreplacement, loop reconstruction, remyelination, immunoregulation, angiogenesis or revascularization, and others...
2023: International Review of Neurobiology