Elle Rathbun
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Elle Rathbun
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Neuroscience Ph.D. candidate at UCLA Carmichael Lab 🧠 studying neural repair and biomaterials | Personal finance educator | 🏔️✍️🐶
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As part of the McClintock Letters, I wrote a piece for The Durango Herald about the crucial role of federal grants in my journey from being a low-income student in a small town to researching potential stroke therapies at UCLA. The Trump administration is dismantling these grants and institutions.
Beyond advancing medical and scientific innovation, federal grants help rural students and communities
Durango raised me, from preschool at Needham Elementary through Durango High School graduation. I am now a neuroscientist at the University of California, Los Angeles, investigating potential treatmen...
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June 22, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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Excited to share our new paper!

Our new paper in
@NatureComms
reveals how parvalbumin (PV) interneurons regulate stroke recovery by enhancing network synchronization.

Read here: nature.com/articles/s41...

#Neuroscience #StrokeRecovery #BrainPlasticity
Parvalbumin interneurons regulate rehabilitation-induced functional recovery after stroke and identify a rehabilitation drug - Nature Communications
The biological mechanisms of rehabilitation after stroke are not fully understood. Here authors identify parvalbumin interneurons as a key mediator of rehabilitation-induced stroke recovery and a drug...
nature.com
March 18, 2025 at 8:58 PM