When a person suffers a stroke, physicians must restore blood flow to the brain as quickly as possible to save their life.

Patients often experience functional decline after an ischemic stroke, especially due to the brain's resistance to regenerate after damage. Yet, there is still potential for recovery as surviving ...

Ischemic stroke is a major cause of death and disability, caused by a sudden loss of oxygen supply to the brain due to blocked blood vessels. Recanalization treatments such as intravenous thrombolysis ...

This video shows, in real time within the first 24 hours of the injection, immune cells (shown in red) rushing into an area injured by ischemic stroke. The peptide treatment (blue) successfully ...

There’s new wisdom about a brain diagnosis that shouldn’t be ignored. A new study suggests that having a transient ischemic attack, also known as a “mini-stroke,” may have similar long-lasting effects ...

Global health research has long shown the devastating consequences that maternal deaths have on families and communities in developing countries where maternal mortality rates are high. But this ...

MIT researchers say they've developed microscopic "circulatronics" technology that could one day provide noninvasive brain ...

Everywhere you look, there is a great deal of fear about the possibility of developing dementia as you get older. A new study ...

Anoxic brain injury, also called anoxic encephalopathy or hypoxic-ischemic brain injury, is a life threatening condition resulting from a complete lack of oxygen to the brain. Anoxic brain injury (ABI ...

Partial recovery after ischemic stroke is possible, but the mechanisms involved in this process remain unclear. Researchers identified a whole new pathway promoting brain repair. They discovered ...