Health Management for Older Adults III - Emergency Response to Stroke -- The Neural Pathophysiology of Stroke

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According to conventional thinking, occlusion of an internal carotid artery by clot immediately reduces to zero the blood flow to portions of one cerebral hemisphere supplied by the anterior and middle cerebral arteries, the two major branches of the internal carotid artery.

It has then been supposed that all neurons in these regions of the brain die, putatively within 3 or 4 minutes.

Fortunately, the actual course of events is quite different.