Each year, thousands of stroke survivors are left with hemianopia, a condition that causes loss of half of their visual field (the “vertical midline”). Hemianopia severely affects daily ...

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 ...

Stroke recovery represents one of the most challenging yet hopeful journeys in medicine. While the brain damage from a stroke cannot be reversed, the remarkable ability of the human brain to rewire ...

Stroke survivors often face substantial and long-lasting problems with their arms. Both arms often decline together: When one arm is more severely affected by the stroke, the other becomes more ...

A team of researchers from Skoltech, the Federal Center for Brain and Neurotechnologies (FMBA of Russia), Lomonosov Moscow State University, and other leading organizations has released a dataset that ...

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 ...

When someone has a stroke — a leading worldwide cause of death and disability — time is of the essence. Almost nine out of 10 cases are ischemic strokes, caused by restricted blood flow in the brain, ...

Some patients with a common type of stroke benefit from a clot-busting drug given between 4.5 and 24 hours after symptoms emerged, according to a new study.

Each year, thousands of stroke survivors are left with hemianopia, a condition that causes loss of half of their visual field (the “vertical midline”). Hemianopia severely affects daily activities ...