Scottish stroke improvement programme report
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John Watson, Associate Director Scotland of the Stroke Association, comments on the 2022 report for the Scottish stroke improvement programme.
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SEARCH: Scanning eye training for vision problems after stroke
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Immediately after their stroke around 30% of people have a vision problem called hemianopia – loss of vision on one side of the visual field. This leaves them with a ‘blind side’ to their right or left. This project will investigate whether a new treatment can help stroke survivors with hemianopia to manage their vision problems.
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Searching for medicines that can reduce damage after a bleed in the brain
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This research will investigate 2000 drugs that are already known to be safe for use in humans to see if they could help reduce the amount of damage to the brain which an intracerebral haemorrhage (a type of stroke caused by a bleed in the brain) causes.
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Second Chance Stroke Group
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Seizures and epilepsy after stroke
Seizures and epilepsy after stroke
Some people can experience post-stroke seizures. A small number of people go on to develop epilepsy, which is a tendency to have repeated seizures. Find out about the different types of seizures and how epilepsy is diagnosed and treated.
Semantic assessment in aphasia
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This project will focus on people with aphasia who have difficulty understanding the specific meanings of everyday words. As a result they may not be able to understand what people are saying, so communicating in everyday situations is hard.