New nanomaterial passes the blood-brain barrier to reduce damaging inflammation after the most common form of stroke. When someone experiences a stroke, doctors must quickly restore blood flow to the ...

Traditional stroke rehabilitation therapy focuses on restoring strength and movement to the more impaired side of the body, ...

A type of therapy that stimulates specific brain pathways with electromagnetic pulses combined with physical therapy ...

In the U.S., a stroke happens roughly every 40 seconds. That means, in the time it takes to read a five-minute news article, ...

"The results of our trial potentially broaden the time window for the initiation of treatment, although there was more bleeding with the dual regimen than with the monotherapy," the authors wrote. In ...

When someone is affected by a stroke, the standard treatment to restore blood flow to the brain can both save their life and ...

An early-stage clinical trial has shown that deep brain stimulation (DBS) applied to the cerebellum may aid the recovery of upper limb function after stroke. Researchers studied 12 people with ...

Restoring blood flow after an ischemic stroke can trigger secondary brain injury, causing inflammation, neuronal death, and long-term disability that current treatments do not address. Researchers ...

A large meta-analysis found that initiating DOACs without delay in certain stroke patients reduced future stroke events without increasing symptomatic intracerebral hemorrhage. The report included the ...

When a person suffers a stroke, physicians must restore blood flow to the brain as quickly as possible to save their life. But, ironically, that life-saving rush of blood can also trigger a second ...