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 ...

Expanded eligibility for advanced ischemic stroke therapies and the first detailed recommendations pediatric stroke care are ...

Months after UW Medicine neurosurgeons implanted a first-of-its-kind brain stimulation device in a stroke patient, doctors are seeing something they weren't sure was possible: meaningful return of ...

When someone is affected by a stroke, the standard treatment to restore blood flow to the brain can both save their life and cause additional damage – damage which a new, injectable nanomaterial ...

Losing the use of an arm after a stroke can be devastating, but new research could offer survivors fresh hope. The study found that a combination of targeted brain stimulation therapy, along with ...

A new study by UCLA Health has discovered what researchers say is the first drug to fully reproduce the effects of physical stroke rehabilitation in model mice. The findings, published in Nature ...

Imagine your brain as a bustling city with millions of interconnected highways carrying information at lightning speed. Now picture what happens when a major earthquake hits, destroying some of those ...

About 25% of Americans will experience a stroke, according to Steven Edgley, MD, director of stroke rehabilitation at University of Utah Health since 2006. Edgley knows full well how life-changing a ...

Giving the clot-busting medication alteplase at the site of a blocked brain artery after blood clot removal may increase the ...

A stroke blocks off blood supply to the brain - and the damage happens quickly.

A stroke can change a person’s life in an instant, altering their brain and body in ways that are often devastating. Many people understand that a stroke is a medical emergency, but the full impact it ...

But that good arm can be strengthened. In our newly published research in the journal JAMA Neurology, we found that training the less-impaired arm in people living with chronic stroke can improve ...