Nervous System Diseases: News and Research on Ischemic Stroke

MeSH tree: C10.228.140.300.775.400

Improving stroke care and innovation

Every 40 seconds, someone in the U.S. has a stroke, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Because stroke is a leading cause of long-term disability and death, there is a growing need to develop innovative ...

Artery-on-a-chip helps predict stroke risk

Predicting an individual's risk of ischemic stroke is difficult because thrombosis embolization—the process of a blood clot detaching from the area where it formed, traveling and then sticking in another blood vessel—is based ...

Exploring how a treatment improves coordination after stroke

Following stroke, patients have a hard time performing coordinated movements. Transcranial ultrasound stimulation (TUS) is emerging as a treatment to improve poststroke coordination, but the mechanisms for this motor improvement ...

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