Sleeping pills offer hope to STROKE victims How some unscrupulous scientists raise the hopes of some sufferers

How some unscrupulous scientists raise the hopes of some sufferers

This is the headline of Daily mail from UK

Sleeping pills offer hope to STROKE victims: Tablets taken for insomnia 'could help survivors regain the ability to eat, and walk unaided'

A popular sleeping pill could help repair brains damaged by strokes.

In experiments on mice, animals given zolpidem recovered much more rapidly than usual.

“If the dramatic results are replicated in people”, it could mean that many more stroke survivors regain the ability to eat, dress or walk unaided, greatly improving life for them and their carers.

There are 15 million people worldwide who suffer a stroke each year, with nearly six million deaths.

So what happens in mice is totally different from what happens in men.

In some  people who take zolpidem the usual decoupling of the muscle tone from sleep is  lost  so much so  they act out their dreams and  somnambulism people driving cooking while  “awake/asleep” (let us call this “Zolpie” state unlike the  Zombie state which is very popular on  television nowadays”

So it is quite possible that the mice have become “Zolpies” and are just sleepwalking.

To claim this as a big break through i think is premature and downright fraudulent.