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by qCOVET 3948 days ago
re: your comment 'how do you stop anything in the brain - cut the brain out ?'

No, you can still design chemicals and peptides that could cross the blood brain barrier via adsorptive endocytosis, saturable transporters and trans-membrane diffusion.

Drug Delivery to the Brain: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drug_delivery_to_the_brain

Modes of Transport: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2697631/