IRVINE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Cortex Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (AMEX: COR), presenting at the 19th Annual Roth Capital Partners Growth Stock Conference on Wednesday, February 21st, reported that it had generated data which indicated that the histopathological changes previously reported for its lead AMPAKINE® product candidate, CX717, occurred postmortem in the animal tissue. If similar tissue was rapidly removed from animals and placed in an appropriate buffered medium, the tissue showed no signs of any histopathological changes and was physiologically normal.