Stroke: can both medical advances and therapy combine to help victims?

editor@uticopa.com — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 00:00:00 +0100

Doctors and researchers alike are the first to admit that the brain is the last bastion of uncharted body territory. However, by degrees, more and more is being learned and procedures developed to ‘chart' the brain, learn which areas control which physical activity, and to heal areas which have become damaged.

It is well-known that stroke is notoriously difficult to treat. Haemorrhagic strokes account for around thirty per cent of the 150,000 strokes in the UK each year [...]

Depression caused by trauma: how can you deal with it?

editor@uticopa.com — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 00:00:00 +0100

Physiologically speaking, the brain as the most important part of our lives. Yes, the heart is the ticking clock that keeps our organs functioning, but the brain is the controller without which the body is thrown into a directionless trauma bereft of instructions, devoid of organisation, floundering in uncharted seas.

So, consider the two case-studies below when, as so often happens, that unexpected trauma of injury to the brain occurs.

Case study 1.

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Stroke: can both medical advances and therapy combine to help victims?

Depression caused by trauma: how can you deal with it?