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What’s in a name? A call to reframe non-communicable diseases
Source: www.thelancet.com Written by Luke N Allen, Andrea B Feigl DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S2214-109X(17)30001-3 The global health community does not spend much time on branding, which perhaps explains why existing classifications for the three largest groups...

Life after stroke: Tips for recovering communication skills
Stroke can lead to ongoing communication problems, but recovery is often possible. The source: medicalnewstoday.com Written by Yvette Brazier Every year in the United States, more than 795,000 people have a stroke, according to the Centers for Disease Control and...

Stroke at 34 – Interview with Diana Wong Ramos from Portugal AVC
by Jennifer Thomsen | 17.1.2017 |published on eso-stroke.org Interview with a Stroke Survivor who had stroke at 34 By Francesca Romana Pezzella (Italy) and Anita Arsovska (Macedonia) Diana Wong Ramos is a 39 year old stroke survivor, whom we met during the SAFE...

The lasting effects of ministrokes may contribute to dementia
Evidence overwhelmingly supports a link between cognitive decline (including dementia) and cerebrovascular diseases such as atherosclerosis, arteriolosclerosis, and cerebral amyloid angiopathy. Not only do individuals with cerebrovascular diseases have a much higher...

Classic video game system used to improve understanding of the brain
Researchers use Donkey Kong video game to help guide new approaches in neuroscience The complexity of neural networks makes them difficult to analyze, but human made computing systems should be simpler to understand. In a study published in PLOS Computational Biology,...