Atherosclerosis of the extracranial internal carotid artery (ICA) causes 10–20% of ischaemic strokes.1 As luminal stenosis of the ICA grows, the risk of ischaemic stroke increases,2 and removal of the ...

Australian Stroke Alliance has received $15 million in federal government funding to introduce more trial sites within the next 12 months. Funding will also pave the way for the Australian-made ...

It makes sense that folks want to know all that they can about the signs of a stroke, a medical emergency in which a blood vessel supplying the brain is obstructed or ruptured. Stroke is one of the ...

An estimated 610,000 Americans are expected to experience their first stroke this year — but you don’t have to be one of them. With nearly 80% of strokes considered preventable, you’d think ...

The researchers found that stroke cut off communication with parvalbumin neuron cells, which play a vital role in brain function and an individual's behavior – including movement.

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 ...

For all his compulsion to elicit a public reaction from just about everything he did, Hugo never exhibited his drawings, barely allowing anyone beyond his family and circle of intimate friends to ...

A new study has discovered what researchers say is the first drug to fully reproduce the effects of physical stroke rehabilitation in model mice, following from human studies. A new study by UCLA ...

Based on prior knowledge of post‐varicella arteriopathy, we hypothesized that VZV infection, when present, would more commonly precede arteriopathic stroke, particularly FCA, compared with ...

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 ...