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Finding normal
The progesterone story began as a scientific puzzle, obstinately pursued by a stubborn Emory neuroscientist. What caused some female rats to survive brain injuries virtually unscathed while males with similar injuries died or had severe problems finding their way around once familiar mazes?
Many colleagues thought Don Stein was too obsessed with a potentially career-killing research dead-end. Two Emory doctors looked at Stein’s findings in rats and thought that maybe, just maybe, the scientist was on to something that could change the too often dismal outcomes of the traumatic brain injury patients they saw in the emergency department. Other Emory doctors and researchers stepped up to help them find out, in a clinical trial funded by the NIH, conducted at Grady Memorial Hospital, where TBI patients arrive with heartbreaking regularity.
