A great poster explaining TBI. We need something similar for stroke because no one seems to be cognizant of all the neurons dying secondarily due to:
1. Excitotoxicity
2. Glutamate poisoning
3. Capillaries that don't open due to pericytes
4. Inflammatory action leaking through the blood brain barrier
My doctor could have just handed me a poster like this since he didn't tell me anything about my stroke at all. And maybe I wouldn't be such an asshole pointing out all the failures in the stroke world.
http://knowingneurons.com/2013/03/27/traumatic-brain-injury/
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