Cerebral Damage after Stroke: The Role of Neuroplasticity as Key for Recovery

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mubarak Muhammad ◽  
Tasneem Muhammad Hassan

Stroke remains global health care problem that constitutes world’s second-leading perpetrator of mortality and third most pronounced cause of all disabilities. The hallmark of cerebral stroke is the persistent loss of cerebral function consequence of abnormality of the blood supply. The ultimate goal of stroke care is to recover and maximize the cerebral functions lost due to the cerebral damage. Therefore, understanding the mechanism of cerebral damage after stroke is fundamental to comprehension of mechanisms of recovery following stroke, as well as key towards eliminating devastating human disability as a result of stroke. Therapeutic strategies aim to harness and enhance neuroplasticity offers reasonable level of hope towards maximizing recovery from post stroke impairments. This paper therefore, highlighted the mechanism of cerebral damage after stroke as well as elucidates the concept of neuroplasticity as key for recovery following stroke.

2010 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 10-17 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amy M. Bauer ◽  
Pedro Bonilla ◽  
Matthew W. Grover ◽  
Fremonta Meyer ◽  
Carleen Riselli ◽  
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2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-32
Author(s):  
Merrill Singer ◽  
Barbara Rylko-Bauer

AbstractThis paper examines the COVID-19 pandemic in light of two key concepts in medical anthropology: syndemics and structural violence. Following a discussion of the nature of these two concepts, the paper addresses the direct and associated literatures on the syndemic and structural violence features of the COVID pandemic, with a specific focus on: 1) the importance of local socioenvironmental conditions/demographics and disease configurations in creating varying local syndemic expressions; 2) the ways that the pandemic has exposed the grave weaknesses in global health care investment; and 3) how the syndemic nature of the pandemic reveals the rising rate of noncommunicable diseases and their potential for interaction with current and future infectious disease. The paper concludes with a discussion on the role of anthropology in responding to COVID-19 from a syndemics perspective.


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Author(s):  
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pp. 298 ◽  
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