Stroke is one of the leading causes of long-term disability worldwide and often results in impairments in movement, speech ...

Scientists have, for the first time, mapped in exquisite three-dimensional detail six major conformations of a membrane in ...

Scientists have discovered that a common type of stroke may have a very different cause than doctors once thought. Instead of fatty plaque clogging arteries, the strongest link was found with enlarged ...

Blocking the activity of ZFP384 can prolong the brain’s endogenous repair functions after stroke, report researchers in a ...

A new study from scientists at the University of Rochester Medicine suggests that reinforcing the body's natural daily rhythms to improve sleep could help the brain recover after a stroke, pointing to ...

Strokes lead to irreversible damage to the brain and are one of the most common causes of dependency or death. As the cellular reactions to a cerebral infarction are not yet fully understood, there is ...

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Around a third of people are able to almost fully rebuild their brains after a stroke and uncovering why is pointing the way ...

Ischaemic stroke arises when cerebral blood flow is critically reduced, depriving neural tissue of oxygen and glucose. The primary event is often thromboembolic occlusion of a major artery, though ...

Strokes are a medical emergency, yet imaging can capture only snapshots of how brain damage develops in the hours and days that follow. For many other organs, blood tests can indicate acute injury, ...

Cardio-cerebral infarction refers to the simultaneous occurrence of acute ischaemic stroke and myocardial infarction, a rare but life-threatening syndrome that unites two leading causes of mortality ...

Gaylord Specialty Healthcare, one of the nation's leading rehabilitation-focused healthcare systems and a recognized destination for stroke rehabilitation and traumatic brain injury rehabilitation, ...