First appeared on ScienceDaily.com Stroke is the most common cause of adult disability. This is due not only to the high incidence of stroke, but also because spontaneous recovery is often incomplete and no drugs are available that hasten recovery. Mesencephalic...

First appeared on ScienceDaily.com More than 2.5 million Americans are living with Atrial Fibrillation (AFib). AFib is an irregular heartbeat that can lead to blood clots, stroke, heart failure and other heart-related complications. What doctors and researchers...

A massive and extremely slow change in electrical potential is evidence of irreparable damage First appeared on ScienceDaily.com Researchers from Charité -- Universitätsmedizin Berlin have analyzed the underlying electrophysiological indicators of subarachnoid...

Replacement neurons, blood vessels fill in stroke cavity; gel provides scaffolding First appeared on ScienceDaily.com In a first-of-its-kind finding, a new stroke-healing gel helped regrow neurons and blood vessels in mice with stroke-damaged brains, UCLA researchers...

First published on ScienceDaily.com A study led by Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) investigators may lead to a significant expansion in the number of stroke patients who can safely be treated with intravenous tPA (tissue plasminogen activator), the "clot busting"...