Neurosurgeon Dr. Paul Saphier on the warning signs to look for. I am a neurosurgeon who specializes in the treatment of acute strokes, brain bleeds, and tumors. Every second counts for my patients, and I am determined to help as many as I can. This Thanksgiving dinner, I left my family to operate on a patient with a life-threatening stroke. This is what you need to know about strokes and how artificial intelligence is helping surgeons like me save even more patients.

When blood flow to the brain is somehow reduced or restricted, a person can suffer a stroke. Stroke is fairly common; in Europe alone, there are over 1.5 million new cases each year. Some strokes can be lethal, and when they're not, they often result in serious damage to the victim's ability to move. In fact, stroke is one of the major causes of long-term disability today. Recovery can be a long and arduous road.

New technologies in healthcare are being implemented at an increasingly rapid pace, creating game changers in the way medical personnel approach, diagnose and treat life threatening emergencies. As a current example, a recent partnership between MedyMatch Technology and Samsung Neurologica could lead to invaluable information gained and time saved in the processes of providing aid to stroke victims. By doing so, EMTs and paramedics will be able to assess stroke victims faster in their pre-hospital environments. Ambulance-based mobile stroke units that are already equipped with Samsung Nuerologica's CereTom computed tomography scanner will receive integration with the artificial intelligence technology. This will enable first responders to more easily use CT scans to determine with more accuracy whether the patient is suffering from a blood clot or a brain hemorrhage.

Before 2019, Doctors at CHI Health had to wait up to three hours before diagnosing stroke victims. But thanks to artificial intelligence, they can now do that within just six minutes. On Aug. 28, Natalie Carr was getting ready for bed when she realized something wasn't right. "I remember sitting there and looking down at my hand. It felt like it was falling asleep," Carr said.

GLóRIA DE DOURADOS, MATO GROSSO DO SUL, BRAZIL - 2019/08/19: In this photo illustration the Siri ... [ ] logo is displayed on a smartphone. In the early morning hours of October 2nd 2019, Duane Raible, a 52–year-old male traveling from Pennsylvania and staying at the Thompson Chicago Hotel, knew something wasn't right. He felt dizzy, his face was numb, and he recognized that he had difficulty speaking. He proceeded to call 9-1-1 on his smartphone for help. But the help he needed wasn't provided by the dispatcher.

For people who struggle to spell, due to conditions such as dyslexia, writing can seem like a daunting and frustrating task. Now neuroscientists have pinpointed the parts of the brain that control how we construct words. By studying stroke victims who have lost the ability to spell, they were able to link basic spelling difficulties with damage to seemingly unrelated regions of the brain for the first time. By studying stroke victims with spelling difficulties, neuroscientists were able to link basic spelling difficulties with damage to seemingly unrelated regions of the brain. The study, published in the journal Brain, could shed new light on how we use and remember words.

Scientists pioneering research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston believe stroke victims could see movement improve by up to 15%. The team hopes to develop the robot therapy so it can help the patients regain movement in their hands and wrists, allowing them to perform tasks, such as opening jars, which are often impossible for many stroke victims. At the moment, all patients will do exercises under the instruction of a human physiotherapist to help them regain the use of limbs paralysed by a stroke. However, the response to traditional treatment can sometimes be quite poor. In the US treatment, a patient puts their hand on a robotic joystick, and is repeatedly guided through a series of movements by prompts from a "game" on a video screen.