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Inspired by the recent success of deep learning models in medical image analysis, we investigate the efficacy of employing generative adversarial networks (GANs) to address motion blurs in brain MRI scans. We cast the problem as a blind deconvolution task where a neural network is trained to guess a blurring kernel that produced the observed corruption. Specifically, our study explores a new approach under the sparse coding paradigm where every ground truth corrupting kernel is assumed to be a \u201ccombination\u201d of a relatively small universe of \u201cbasis\u201d kernels. This assumption is based on the intuition that, on small distance scales, patients\u2019 moves follow simple curves and that complex motions can be obtained by combining a number of simple ones. We show that, with a suitably dense basis, a neural network can effectively guess the degrading kernel and reverse some of the damage in the motion-affected real-world scans. To this end, we generated 10,000 continuous and curvilinear kernels in random positions and directions that are likely to uniformly populate the space of corrupting kernels in real-world scans. We further generated a large dataset of 225,000 pairs of sharp and blurred MR images to facilitate training effective deep learning models. Our experimental results demonstrate the viability of the proposed approach evaluated using synthetic and real-world MRI scans. 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