thumb|right|A neuron observed under an optical microscope
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thumb|right|A neuron observed under an optical microscope
Neuroprotection refers to the relative preservation of neuronal structure and/or function. In the case of an ongoing insult (a neurodegenerative insult) the relative preservation of neuronal integrity implies a reduction in the rate of neuronal loss over time, which can be expressed as a differential equation.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).