Neuroscience
New research gives hope for sight recovery in stroke survivors
Researchers have used MRI imaging to map visual brain activity in stroke survivors with sight loss that gives new hope for rehabilitation and recovery.
Jan 6, 2022
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Stroke
Health
After diabetes, stroke and heart attack, she's learning to 'fight smart'
Hyvelle Ferguson-Davis was reviewing paperwork at her office in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, when the headache started. It grew stronger and stronger and her eyes blurred, making it difficult to read. She hoped she wasn't coming ...
May 21, 2020
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Neuroscience
Novel drug promotes nervous system repair in animal models of stroke
A new groundbreaking study from the University of Cincinnati shows promise that a new drug may help repair damage caused by strokes.
Jul 28, 2022
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Health
Smoking directly linked to a higher risk of subarachnoid hemorrhage
Adults who smoke or who are genetically predisposed to smoking behaviors are more likely to experience a serious type of stroke called subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH), according to new research published today in Stroke, a ...
Jan 14, 2021
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Neuroscience
Post-stroke rehabilitation proves more effective when vibratory stimulus coincides
Every 40 seconds someone in the U.S. experiences a stroke, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. And because stroke is the country's leading cause of long-term disability, the effectiveness of post-stroke ...
Oct 18, 2021
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Cardiology
Improved motor, sensory, and cognitive recovery of hand and arm function after stroke
After lying for a while in a way that puts pressure on a nerve in your arm, you do not feel the arm anymore, you cannot perceive its location and size, and it feels like it does not belong to your own body. If this condition ...
Jan 7, 2022
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Neuroscience
How brain cells compensate for damage from a stroke
A study from UCLA neurologists challenges the idea that the brain recruits existing neurons to take over for those that are lost from stroke. It shows that in mice, undamaged neurons do not change their function after a stroke ...
Jun 25, 2021
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Cardiology
USPSTF: Evidence still lacking for atrial fibrillation screening
(HealthDay)—The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) concludes that current evidence remains insufficient for weighing the benefits and harms of screening for atrial fibrillation (AF). These findings form the basis ...
Jan 27, 2022
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Cardiology
Children with severe stroke may fare better if treatment includes mechanical clot removal
Serious disability was 6 times more likely to be the result three months after stroke among children whose clot-caused stroke in a large vessel (a type of ischemic stroke) was not treated with a procedure to extract the ...
Feb 11, 2022
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Doctors consider possible stroke and COVID-19 connection
The first thing to know about the possible links between COVID-19 and stroke is simple, say doctors: We just don't know.
May 12, 2020
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