With or without cognitive impairment, patients improved in stroke rehabilitation, and they improved at a similar rate, regardless of whether cognitive impairment was present, at least as measured by the Mini-Mental State Exam.

At least half of the patients had a cognitive impairment when they entered rehabilitation.

This is important, because mild cognitive impairment often precedes dementia.

It's very common in paranoid schizophrenics to have areas of significant impairment and islands where cognitive skills are preserved,

Regardless of what this document is, why is the E.P.A. ignoring its well-reasoned conclusions? And what does this say about the ability of the E.P.A. to compel G.E. to do anything?

Patients are there and are paralyzed. The stroke process is going on and patients are losing brain tissue. If they can reverse the stroke within three hours, the chances are much, much higher that that person will have a total recovery. If you miss that three-hour window, it's a sad story.