Friday, April 30, 2010

Lottery game helps to assess brain damage following stroke

People that suffer from strokes are believed to have the reasons most people do when they get a stroke. Examples of this is just eating on one half of your food on your plate and only focusing on one side of your brain. 45% of people suffer from strokes on the right side of their brain.

Students and professors at the University of Melbourne studied a group of people who have suffered from strokes and they came up with some very interesting information. The students and professors played a lottery game with the patients where they had to choose six lottery numbers and mark them off. Most patients tended to pick numbers located on the right side, basically ignoring all the numbers on the left side.

These people even picked larger numbers on a number lines, those numbers that were located on the right side of the number line. I thought this was very interesting to find out that people were able to just look over the left side of some information.

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