Our brain’s post-stroke recovery journey
The damaged brain begins its recovery journey in minutes after stroke. Experts group this into five phases. Find out.
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How stroke causes speech problems
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…
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Neurons
An illustrated neuron graphic
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The neuron forest
“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…
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Understand different stroke types
A stroke can occur either due to a block in an artery or bleeding from an artery. Find out more about it.
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Brain’s blood supply and stroke
brain’s blood flow
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Homunculus on our brain surface
“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…
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A walk on the brain surface for stroke caregivers
Knowledge about the brain surface will inspire stroke caregivers to make better decisions.
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How meninges protect the brain
brain covers carry out important job lying in-between the bony skull and the pliable brain
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