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Walking sticks for stroke patients: Improve balance, confidence, & mobility

Find all about useful and practical evidence-based info about canes.

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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 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…

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