The most common symptoms of stroke can be remembered with the word FAST: Face Arms Speech Time. Face – the person’s face may have dropped on one side; they may not be able to smile, or their mouth or eye may have drooped. Arms –the person may not be able to lift both arms an...
The incidence of stroke in young individuals has been showing an increasing trend. In such cases, atypical mechanisms of stroke should be considered. Here, we report a case of a 37-year-old healthy female who presented with complaints of right-sided atax
Medically reviewed by Brian Walcott, MD. Associate Professor of Clinical Neurosurgery, University of Chicago Last updated April 24, 2024 Heart Icon.4 Speech Bubble Icon.0 Share Icon.Share Facebook Icon.Facebook LinkedIn Icon.Linkedin Pinterest Icon.Pinterest Pocket Icon.Pocket Share Link Icon....
To assess performance in speech entrainment, the team calculated a speech entrainment score for forty-eight study participants with a history of stroke affecting the left side of the brain. The score was derived by comparing the number of words each patient produced per second during speech entrain...
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Failure to predict stroke promptly may lead to delayed treatment, causing severe consequences like permanent neurological damage or death. Early detection using deep learning (DL) and machine learning (ML) models can enhance patient outcomes and mitigate
Comorbidities and situational factors: Cognitive performance should be interpreted in the context of potentially confounding clinical factors that may impact interpretation of results, such as communication and sensorimotor deficits (speech and language, vision, hearing), delirium, hypo-arousal or hyper-arou...
He had had several episodes of slurred speech each lasting for about 10 minutes. Over the last year or so he had also become more unsteady with shortening stride length, and had fallen on two occasions. Clinical examination, apart from memory loss was normal. A magnetic resonance (MR) scan...
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However, survivors often live with the long-term sequela, such as physical disabilities, neuropsychiatric problems, and speech and cognitive impairment9,10,11. The global burden of stroke has been reported in previous studies, however this information is now out of date and the different subtypes...