Neuroscience research has contributed significantly to understanding alterations in brain structure and function after ischemic stroke. Technical limitations have excluded the spinal cord from imaging ...

Every year, around 46,000 people in the UK experience a transient ischaemic attack (TIA), commonly referred to as a "mini stroke", for the first time. TIAs occur when there is a temporary ...

Vladimir Putin is showing "the consequences of a mini-stroke," according to a former Kremlin speechwriter. Abbas Gallyamov, who worked as Mr Putin's speechwriter during his first two terms as ...

The basal ganglia are a set of subcortical structures that interact with the cerebral cortex to regulate motor, cognitive and affective function through reinforcement learning and action selection.

Varicella zoster virus (VZV) has historically been associated with focal cerebral arteriopathy and arterial ischemic stroke (AIS) in children, and risk of AIS and myocardial infarction in adults. The ...

The analysis, which includes two studies looking into the benefits of revascularization in patients with ischemic LV dysfunction ... endpoint of STICH3C is a composite of all-cause mortality, stroke, ...

In the US, the rate of ischemic stroke among adults aged 20 to 44 surged from 17 per 100,000 adults in 1993 to 28 per 100,000 in 2015. The risk of stroke death among young adults is also on the rise.

It focused on 426 people between the ages of 18 and 49 who had suffered an ischemic stroke that had had no specifically known cause. They were then compared, while being matched for age and sex ...

Objectives To measure iron accumulation in the basal ganglia in Huntington's disease (HD) using quantitative susceptibility mapping (QSM), and to ascertain its relevance in terms of clinical and ...

Background The ability to predict outcome after stroke is clinically important for planning treatment and for stratification in restorative clinical trials. In relation to the upper limbs, the main ...

Hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy (HIE), and subsequent ... Thirty-six of 37 infants with basal ganglia and thalami (BGT) lesions (97%) also had WM involvement, diffuse in 24 (65%) and severe ...