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Imagine the following trail of events: You start to observe or more F.A.S.T. stroke symptoms and signs in a person; you call an ambulance; emergency responders arrive at the scene; they determine of a stroke; they rush the person to a stroke unit; the person is treated with a blot clot-dissolving medication.  If all these events occur within the first hour from the time of detection, that is the golden hour. What is the “golden hour”? The “golden hour” of a stroke refers to the first hour after the onset of stroke symptoms. This term highlights the importance of recognizing the…

A stroke can occur either due to a block in an artery or bleeding from an artery. Find out more about it.

brain’s blood flow

“Homunculus” refers to a small human or a “humanoid” creature. Do we have it on our brain surface? Yes, we can find a homunculus (figuratively) as a map in our brain. Not just one, in fact, we have “two little humanoids”!. This is the story behind this amazing discovery. In 1937, two brilliant scientists, Dr Wilder Penfield and Edwin Boldrey embarked on a journey to unravel the mysteries of the human brain. They were operating at McGill University, in Montreal, Canada with a mission to map the brain regions that receive sensory information from the skin and those that send…

Knowledge about the brain surface will inspire stroke caregivers to make better decisions.

brain covers carry out important job lying in-between the bony skull and the pliable brain