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An India-origin man, including other researchers have found from a study that head injury and stroke can be treated by inducing cooling in a brain to lower temperature.

Lowering the brain temperature after head injury or stroke may relieve pressure inside the head and can avoid swelling and further complications, especially in critical cases as it can impact the blood vessels and tissue throughout the brain.

It also found that cooling treatment may help infants at risk of long-term damage from birth complications without having to cool their entire body.

The infants from Hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy (HIE) can reduce their core brain temperature from a normal level of 37 degree Celsius to 36 degree Celsius which is recognized as low enough to help in healing.

The team involved in a study which was published in Journal scientific Reports developed a robust 3D model that scans the entire brain or parts of it showing the brain neuron predicting temperature and blood flow by using computer simulations.

The model takes simultaneous flow, heat transfer and metabolism into account between arteries, veins and brain tissue in three dimensions of through out the organ.

"Our sophisticated model should enable speedy progress in developing optimum treatments involving brain cooling, and support the development of studies on brain health," said study lead Prashant Valluri from University's School of Engineering.

The researchers said, it could also be modified to inmate the effects of stroke and also impact of drugs administrated.

By Sowmya Sangam