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NINDB was "responsible for conducting and supporting research and training in the 200 neurological and sensory disorders that affected 20 million individuals in the United States and were 'the first cause of permanent crippling and the third cause of death.'" [10] Because the etiology of the most common neurological diseases was poorly ...
Renu Chakravarti Laskar (August 8, 1932 – September 17, 2024) was an Indian-born American mathematician, specializing in graph theory.She was a Professor in the Department of Mathematical Sciences at Clemson University from 1968 to 2006.
In the United States stroke is a leading cause of disability, and recently declined from the third leading to the fourth leading cause of death. [245] Geographic disparities in stroke incidence have been observed, including the existence of a "stroke belt" in the southeastern United States, but causes of these disparities have not been explained.
This is a list of graph theory topics, by Wikipedia page. See glossary of graph theory for basic terminology. Examples and types of graphs. Amalgamation;
Stroke is the sixth-leading cause of death in the Native American population. Native Americans are sixty percent more likely than white adults in the United States to have a stroke. Native American women have double the rate of stroke of white women. About 3.6% of Native American and Alaska Native men and women over 18 have a stroke. [25]
CT scan slice of the brain showing a right-hemispheric ischemic stroke (left side of image). A stroke can be caused by a few different situations, but the basic result is the same. Blood flow to a section of the brain is stopped, which results in rapid depletion of oxygen and other nutrients in the starved section.
Edward Taub in 2014. Edward Taub (born 1931, Brooklyn New York) [1] is a behavioral neuroscientist on the faculty at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.He is best known for his involvement in the Silver Spring monkeys case, for making discoveries in the area of neuroplasticity, and developing constraint-induced movement therapy; a family of techniques which helps the rehabilitation of ...
In 1620, Johann Jakob Wepfer, by studying the brain of a pig, developed the theory that stroke was caused by an interruption of the flow of blood to the brain. [6] [page needed] After that, the focus became how to treat patients with stroke. [citation needed] For most of the last century, people were discouraged from being active after a stroke.