Method of treating and preventing acute neural lesions with substances that modulate the expression or function of a protein involved in the cell cycle and pharmaceutical preparations containing such substances

Method of treating or preventing non-apoptotic excitotoxic acute neural lesions in a patient including administering a therapeutically effective amount of a substance that modulates expression or the function of a protein involved in cell cycles, and a pharmaceutical preparation for treating or preventing non-apoptotic excitotoxic acute neural lesions including a therapeutically effective amount of a substance that modulates expression or the function of a protein involved in the cell cycle.