Revising the ICD: stroke is a brain disease

Affiliations

• ¹ Division of Brain Health, Imperial College London, Charing Cross Hospital, London W6 8RF, UK. Electronic address: raad.shakir@wfneurology.org.
• ² Melbourne Brain Centre, Royal Melbourne Hospital and University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, Australia.
• ³ Lund University, Lund, Sweden.
• ⁴ Kaiser Franz Josef Hospital, Vienna, Austria.
• ⁵ Department of Neurology, Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, Perth, WA, Australia; Centre for Neuromuscular and Neurological Disorders, Western Australian Neuromuscular Research Insitiute, University of Western Australia, WA, Australia.
• ⁶ National Institute for Stroke and Applied Neurosciences, Auckland University of Technology, Auckland, New Zealand.
• ⁷ University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada.