A stroke can change a person’s life in many ways. Some people recover well and regain most of their abilities, but others later develop problems with memory, concentration, and thinking. Doctors have ...

Researchers at The University of Manchester have found that tracking changes in a protein linked to inflammation (interleukin ...

Researchers at the University of Oxford have developed a "Stroke Cognition Calculator," a new tool designed to estimate a person's chance of having thinking and memory problems six months after a ...

The risk of recurrent ischemic stroke can be reduced by managing modifiable risk factors and instituting a regimen of mechanism-specific secondary stroke prevention. Strategies for secondary ...

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 ...

The European Stroke Organization calls for systematic screening within days of stroke to detect visual deficits that affect ...

Strokes are the leading cause of adult disability across the UK, impacting an estimated 100,000 individuals annually. They events occur when the brain's blood supply is abruptly interrupted, either by ...

Nirupama Yechoor, MD, MSC, of the Department of Neurology at Massachusetts General Hospital, is the senior author of a paper published in JAMA Network Open, "Coherence of Stroke Survivors' Lived ...

Headaches occurred in about 46% of patients with hemorrhagic stroke in a new meta-analysis, with a higher prevalence among those with subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) than among those with intracerebral ...