The National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), part of the National Institutes of Health is the nation's leading funder of research on the brain and nervous system. The NINDS mission is to reduce the burden of neurological disease -- a burden borne by every age group, by every segment of society, by people all over the world. For more information, please visit www.ninds.nih.gov.
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