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Affiliations

¹ From the Stroke Program (L.A.S.), Division of Neurology, Department of Clinical Neurological Sciences, Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry, Heart and Brain Laboratory (L.A.S.), Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics (L.A.S.), Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology (L.A.S.), and Robarts Research Institute (L.A.S.), Western University; Lawson Health Research Institute (L.A.S.), London, ON, Canada; and Department of Human Neurosciences (S.L.), Policlinico Umberto I Hospital, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy. Luciano.Sposato@LHSC.on.ca.
² From the Stroke Program (L.A.S.), Division of Neurology, Department of Clinical Neurological Sciences, Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry, Heart and Brain Laboratory (L.A.S.), Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics (L.A.S.), Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology (L.A.S.), and Robarts Research Institute (L.A.S.), Western University; Lawson Health Research Institute (L.A.S.), London, ON, Canada; and Department of Human Neurosciences (S.L.), Policlinico Umberto I Hospital, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy.

Editorial

Luciano A Sposato et al. Neurology. 2020.

. 2020 Jul 14;95(2):57-58.

doi: 10.1212/WNL.0000000000009766. Epub 2020 Jun 11.

¹ From the Stroke Program (L.A.S.), Division of Neurology, Department of Clinical Neurological Sciences, Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry, Heart and Brain Laboratory (L.A.S.), Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics (L.A.S.), Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology (L.A.S.), and Robarts Research Institute (L.A.S.), Western University; Lawson Health Research Institute (L.A.S.), London, ON, Canada; and Department of Human Neurosciences (S.L.), Policlinico Umberto I Hospital, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy. Luciano.Sposato@LHSC.on.ca.
² From the Stroke Program (L.A.S.), Division of Neurology, Department of Clinical Neurological Sciences, Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry, Heart and Brain Laboratory (L.A.S.), Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics (L.A.S.), Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology (L.A.S.), and Robarts Research Institute (L.A.S.), Western University; Lawson Health Research Institute (L.A.S.), London, ON, Canada; and Department of Human Neurosciences (S.L.), Policlinico Umberto I Hospital, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy.

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