What are we doing to defeat stroke?

Unless we identify what we are trying to accomplish we can never succeed

After the fact we have one form of stroke rehabilitation - neuroplasticity.
There are no proven drugs that can help rehab along.
Neurogenesis is still a pipe dream.
Stem cells are even farther out there.
Because of this our stroke associations have incorrectly identified prevention as the only thing to work towards, unless we create a Great stroke association. We have to do this, no one will help us.
Stopping the neuronal cascade of death is the most logical path.
With less dead and damaged neurons at least you might have a fighting chance at full recovery. 

Logic is little tweeting bird chirping in meadow. Logic is wreath of pretty flowers that smell bad. --Spock in 'I, Mudd'

“Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass  

“Anything that thinks logically can be fooled by something else that thinks at least as logically as it does.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Trilogy  



"Lt. Columbo: You have to forgive me, it's not me, it's my mind, it's very slow, and I have to pin everything down"