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'Stress can cause strokes'

By Our Staff Reporter

Chennai Aug. 23 . Neurological strokes caused by stress may become a major public health issue, eminent neurologist Krishnamoorthy Srinivas said here today. Stress levels were going up and this had the effect of causing neurological strokes. "Strokes could be a major problem as people have still not learnt to deal with it,'' he said.

Prof. Srinivas also said neurological sciences needed to be demystified and explained in simpler terms.

He was being felicitated by the staff of the T.S. Srinivasan Institute of Neurological Sciences and Research and the K. Gopalakrishnan Department of Neurology on his being conferred the `Honorary Membership of the American Neurological Association'.

Prof. Srinivas is only the third Indian to receive the membership of this prestigious association and the youngest till now. The neurologist, in 1976, was also the youngest physician to be elected Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (London) and in 1965 received his doctorate in medicine, Neurology, from the Madras Medical Mission.

Venu Srinivasan, Chairman, TVS, said Prof. Srinivas had brought neurology to the masses and provided easier access to the poor who could otherwise not have afforded the treatment. More than 1,50,000 patients are treated for neurological problems at the Public Health Centre and Voluntary Health Service.

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