Stroke: Clinical Syndromes, Mechanisms, Routes to Therapy

Davis

October 4, 2007

Required Reading:

Hankey GJ. Clinical update: management of stroke. Lancet. 2007 Apr 21;369(9570):1330-2.

Collins C. Pathophysiology and classification of stroke. Nurs Stand. 2007 Mar 21-27;21(28):35-9.

Wiltrout C, Lang B, Yan Y, Dempsey RJ, Vemuganti R. Repairing brain after stroke: a review on post-ischemic neurogenesis. Neurochem Int. 2007 Jun;50(7-8):1028-41. Epub 2007 May 4.

Suggested, relevant papers:

Wang Q, Tang XN, Yenari MA. The inflammatory response in stroke. J Neuroimmunol. 2007 Mar;184(1-2):53-68. Epub 2006 Dec 26. Review.

Myrna A. Kikkert, Gerard M. Ribbers and Peter J. Koudstaal. Alien Hand Syndrome in Stroke: A Report of 2 Cases and Review of the Literature Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Volume 87, Issue 5, May 2006, Pages 728-732.

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