The answer, as pathetic as it is - is noone.
This is why you have all these survivors creating their own web pages and searching. I've done this myself with this blog.
To see what the future of stroke information dispensation should look like we only need to visit the Alzheimers Association virtual library.
http://www.alz.org/library/index.asp
As you can see they provide all these services:
answer questions about Alzheimer's disease and related dementias
search for materials on topics
locate statistics
find a certain article or book title
connect you with resources
I asked one of the librarians a question.
What are the details behind this study that says Stroke survivors double their chances of getting Alzheimers?
http://www.physorg.com/news124976505.html
Is it because of the area of the stroke?, frontal lobe,hippocampus motor,pre-motor or sensory cortex? Or do the toxins disperse throughout the brain regardless of the epicenter of the stroke? The librarians seem to be associated with various libraries and they have to look up the answers themselves. The best way would be to have a single database of information. My librarian from Syracuse was not able to answer the question. I know it was extremely hard and I didn't really expect an answer, but what I hoped would happen is that they would take the question down and pass it to their experts to solve and then get back to me via email. I might try asking this question of the 2 US associations but I know they will not know the answer. Take this question and ask your countries association what the answer is. If only to show how little they actually know.
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