A summary of some of the recently published papers

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A summary of some of the recently published papers in Neuroscience K. Sridhar, Mazda K. Turel1, Neeraj Kumar2, Ravindra Kumar Garg2, Vimal Paliwal3, Kuntal Kanti Das4, Anant Mehrotra4 Department of Neuro and Spine Surgery, Institute of Neurosciences and Spinal Disorders, Global Health City, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, Department of Neurology, King George Medical University, Departments of 3Neurology and 4Neurosurgery, Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate

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Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India, 1Division of Neurosurgery, Toronto Western Hospital, Toronto, Canada

Sato S, et al. Higher mortality in patients with right hemispheric intracerebral haemorrhage: INTERACT 1 and 2. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2015;86:1319‑23 The prognostic significance of the right or left hemispheric intracerebral haemorrhage (ICH) is not known. It is believed that right hemispheric strokes have a greater chance of major disability but the reports derived from the previous studies show conflicting results. This study publishes the subsidiary analysis of the randomized controlled trials of patients with spontaneous acute ICH with elevated systolic blood pressure, randomly assigned to intensive (target systolic BP