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(Stroke. 2003;34:323.)
© 2003 American Heart Association, Inc.

Advances in Stroke 2002

Advances in Stroke 2002: Introduction

Vladimir Hachinski, MD, DSc, Editor-in-Chief

From London Health Sciences Center, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada.

Correspondence to Dr Vladimir Hachinski, University of Western Ontario, London Health Sciences Center, 339 Windermere Rd, London, Ontario N6A 5A5 Canada.

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Information grows exponentially, knowledge and wisdom more slowly. No one interested in stroke could possibly read, understand, and integrate the vast amount of information contained in the hundreds of relevant articles published in 2002, let alone put them into context. And yet, we need to know what is truly new, valid, and important.

The associate, assistant, and section editors of Stroke, some with the help of invited colleagues, have attempted to evaluate, summarize, and put into context the information from specialized publications in their area of interest into more general knowledge and understanding, and to show that where the evidence falls short, there still is room for wisdom.

The summaries of advances are both comprehensive and succinct. Comprehensive in that all relevant contributions are considered regardless of where they are published, or if unpublished, presented in a reliable forum. And succinct in that the articles are brief enough and clear enough that anyone interested can and should read them. Clinicians usually avoid reading about basic science, because it is perceived to be either irrelevant or too technical to garner their interest. However, the basic science of today leads to the clinical practice of tomorrow, and basic brain mechanisms are both intrinsically interesting and important; such as knowing how the brain regenerates and understanding the role of programmed death in development and disease. This area of research was graced in 2002 by a Nobel Prize in Medicine and Physiology awarded to Robert Horvitz. Another area of science that clinicians need . . . [Full Text of this Article]