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Vladimir Hachinski is a Canadian neurologist, clinical neuroscientist and Distinguished University Professor in the Department of Clinical Neurological Sciences at the Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry at Western University. He is also a Senior Scientist at London's Robarts Research Institute. His research pertains in the greatest part to stroke and dementia, their interactions, and their joint prevention through integral brain health promotion. He and John W. Norris helped to establish the world's first successful acute stroke unit at Sunnybrook Hospital in Toronto, and, by extension, helped establish stroke units as the standard of care for stroke patients worldwide. He discovered that the control of the heart by the brain is asymmetric, the fight/flight (sympathetic) response being controlled by the right hemisphere and the rest and digest (parasympathetic) response being controlled by the left hemisphere and damage to one key component (the insula) can lead to heart rhythm irregularities and sudden death. This discovery has added fundamental knowledge to how the brain controls the heart and how to prevent sudden death.