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The damaged brain begins its recovery journey in minutes after stroke. Experts group this into five phases. Find out.

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Stroke can cause unique speech problems; two common ones include Broca’s aphasia and Wernike’s aphasia. This post explores those two and how stroke creates them. Let us begin with Broca’s aphasia. Broca’s aphasia This type of speech problem occurs due to a stroke attack in Broca’s area. Where is it located? Broca’s area (Figure 1) The Broca’s area rests on the lower part of the left Frontal lobe. I invite you to re-visit the Journeys to the brain: 2 – A walk over the brain surface which introduces different brain lobes. For easy reference, I have included a graphic that appeared in…

An illustrated neuron graphic

“Neuron” by NIH-NCATS is licensed under CC BY 2.0 Our brain contains about 100 billion neurons; it looks like a neuron forest. because a neuron is more or less similar to a tree. Neurons are a special kind of cell. At one end, it sprouts a large number of very thin short threads – “dendrites”. The ends of these receive electrical signals from other neurons via small fluid-filled ponds – “synapses”. The received signals pass along until it reaches the tree (cell) body. From there, it shoots away to the next neuron through another thicker branch; it is named “Axon”. So, dendrites take electrical…

Marguerite Blais

It is good news; until 2018, we knew that neurosurgeons can salvage living neurons only if they remove the clot within six hours of the block. Now, we know it is not so. They can go ahead with the operation if a patient is ready for the surgery even after six hours. About the study This finding was published in the The New England of Journal of Medicine in 2018. An eminent group of US researchers conducted this study recruiting stroke patients from 32 stroke centres; so, it was a multi-centre study. They compared recovery levels of two groups of…

American Heart and Stroke Associations promote use of tPA although not all emergency physicians do not adhere to the practice.