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Cerebral infarction, also known as an ischemic stroke, is the pathologic process that results in an area of necrotic tissue in the brain (cerebral infarct). [1] In mid to high income countries, a stroke is the main reason for disability among people and the 2nd cause of death. [2]
Tell Me Everything You Don't Remember: The Stroke That Changed My Life is a book by Christine Hyung-Oak Lee, published in 2017. Lee suffered a stroke at the age of 33. She explains her symptoms, realization, hospital experience, and the recovery process of the incident and trauma.
The patient—a 47-year-old woman named Ann who had experienced a brainstem stroke 18 years ago, terminating her ability to speak—agreed to have a paper-thin, credit card-sized set of 253 ...
When a person receives cues that another person is in pain, neural pain circuits within the receiver's brain are activated. From an evolutionary perspective, pain empathy is beneficial for human group survival since it provides motivation for non-injured people to offer aid to the injured and to avoid injury themselves. [citation needed]
Stroke is the 5th-leading cause of death in the U.S. and a leading cause of severe disability. On average, a person dies from stroke every 4 minutes.
In my experience, that simple reframing has been the key to taking an inspirational story and making it a personal one. It has invited a non-disabled audience to look at their lives through a new ...
The incidence of post-stroke depression peaks at 3–6 months and usually resolves within 1–2 years after the stroke, although a minority of patients can go on to develop chronic depression. The diagnosis of post-stroke depression is complicated by other consequences of stroke such as fatigue and psychomotor retardation – which do not ...
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