CHICAGO (AP) -- Doctors may want to give stroke victims antidepressants right away instead of waiting until they develop depression, a common complication, new research suggests....
(PhysOrg.com) -- A new computer-based therapy for stroke victims who have suffered partial vision loss has been developed by Scottish scientists.
... prefrontal cortexes of poor kids 9 and 10 years of age react to novel stimuli in the same way as the brain of a stroke victim. The researchers believe this is fixable, however.
A British biotechnology company has been given approval to conduct what it says is the world's first trial into stem cell therapy for human stroke victims.
... recovery of subarachnoid haemorrhage patients, according to the research team. They say doctors can identify those stroke victims most at risk by assessing how they deal with stress, with denial, ...
The recovery of some stroke victims, those who suffer brain hemorrhage, could be vastly improved if they were tested and treated for post-traumatic stress disorder, a distressing psychological ...
An Australian stroke victim paralysed for more than 20 years has walked again thanks to anti-wrinkle drug botox, in a case hailed as extraordinary by his medical team.
... have obstructive sleep apnea die sooner than stroke victims who do not have sleep apnea or who have central ... on Monday, May 19. The researchers followed 132 stroke patients over 10 years. Twenty-three ...
... mortality rates in the studied population.
“Patients with seizures in the setting of an acute stroke may constitute a target population for the development of drugs that may prevent seizures,” says ...
... apply their findings — made in mice — to the treatment of stroke victims everywhere.
But the Karolinska Institutet team ... cause 80 percent of the 15 million strokes that occur each year worldwide. Five ...
... woman, referred to here as Rosemary, was recovering from a stroke two years ago, when her family ... Rosemary's speech is perfectly clear, unlike most stroke victims who have damage to speech-motor areas ...
It was only when Jill Bolte Taylor, a neuroanatomist, had a stroke at the age of 37, that she fully understood the huge gulf between the left and the right parts of the brain. Emma Brockes reports
... who worked with all three institutions who conducted this study. Luft is currently a stroke attending physician and professor of neurorehabilitation at the University of Zurich in Switzerland.
Those ...
P.E.I.'s Heart and Stroke Foundation is calling on the province to build a specialized unit for stroke victims.
(PhysOrg.com) -- When it comes to recovering mobility after a stroke, therapists say that every step counts. Two University of Missouri researchers recently studied robotic gait-assisted therapy to ...
