Poor lady! I had to repost this with some actual detail of what happened!! A doctor who treated #SereneBranson, the CBS Los Angeles reporter whose garbled live report from Sunday's Grammy awards had many wondering if she suffered a stroke on the air, said a complex migraine was to blame. "Her description of the events is really entirely typical of complex migraine," said Dr. Andrew Charles, director of the Headache Research and Treatment Program in the UCLA Department of Neurology, who saw Branson this morning. A symptom of migraine aura is "dysphasic language dysfunction," in which people know what they want to say but they can't get the words out. This is similar to aphasia, which can signal a stroke or a tumor. "Imaging studies ruled out other kinds of problems like a stroke or primary brain event," Charles said. Like a stroke, a complex migraine can disturb blood flow in the brain. But the main event in a migraine is "a storm of brain activity" that causes "waves of change in brain function" that spread across the brain, Charles said. Charles said Branson's experience was likely an "isolated, rare event." "She's in excellent shape and cleared to return to work with no limitations at all," Charles said, "and I don't expect that this is going to be a significant ongoing problem." #wwshero #wwswomen #wesaluteyou #wwsvideos
