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Physician explains how the side of a stroke affects its symptoms

Artem Tolmachev, an associate professor at Pirogov University, explained that damage to the left and right hemispheres of the brain produces different stroke presentations: from speech impairments to problems with spatial perception. The severity of the outcome, however, depends not on the side but on the size of the lesion and the speed of treatment.

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Neuropsychologist Kolobova: smartphones do not accelerate brain aging, peak development occurs at 22–25 years

Neuropsychologist Svetlana Kolobova said that smartphone use by itself does not accelerate the biological aging of the brain, although gadgets can affect individual mental skills. According to her, the peak of brain development occurs at approximately 22–25 years, after which the volume of gray matter gradually decreases, and after 40 years memory and reaction may deteriorate. At the same time, vocabulary and accumulated knowledge can persist into very old age.

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