'Brain glue' could help restore circuitry after severe traumatic brain injury

Would be interested in trying this.

I spent 3 years getting small strokes a couple times a week. Now I get them every 2-3 months.

Each time it takes 2-8 weeks to recover from. Always with some permanent lose in one ability or another’s.

Interesting, beautiful, and fun to speculate on: Intuitively it seems that research like this would help us install and maintain interfaces between the external world and the central nervous system.

Free science-fiction idea: Vat-grown bone ports to match the recipients immune signature that have an embedded organic o-ring-like seal around a neuroumbilical root. Control-theory-based anaesthesia induces, maintains, and adjusts fractional loss of consciousness, applying machine learning techniques we learned from trying to control k8s to local-to-region biomechanical control of gas diffusion as well as suppression networks in the brain. We cut out a part of the skull or spine - in microgravity to avoid stretching and breaking the fatty gossamer cabling inside, of course - and perform the slightest of abrasive insults to the brain or spinal cord. To exactly the correct place because we can ask the fractionally-conscious inhabitant. Then a brain-glue scaffold is built up while the bone port is put into place and nerve fibers are threaded between the new piece and the existing body. The nerves reach out for each other and fuse. Then we saturate the client in various neurogenesis factors, cycling between various classic psychedelics in a proprietary house blend. The client may select if and how to be brought into consciousness during that phase. After healing, a reliable and standard machine interface port is available that is mechanically robust, fully immunologically protected, and self-healing with a reliability span comparable to at least the lifespan of an unmodified host.

A family member recently suffered a horrific accident that left them with sTBI. This article definitely gives hope for potential future therapy options.

But just a gentle reminder of how fragile life really is