This month, KTAR’s Community Spotlight is highlighting the work Barrow Neurological Institute does to empower stroke survivors in Arizona.
With May recognized as Stroke Awareness Month, Barrow doctors say it’s an important time to remind people how dangerous strokes can be — and how quickly they need to be treated.
“We all have about 130 billion neurons in the brain,” Dr. Judea Wiggins, a neurologist at the Barrow Neurological Institute’s Petznick Stroke Center, told KTAR News 92.3 FM’s Arizona’s Morning News on Monday. “For every minute of stroke, you lose about 2 million neurons.”…