An internationally validated, imaging-based score helps clinicians better identify patients with stroke at highest risk for epilepsy.

Strokes are a medical emergency, yet imaging can capture only snapshots of how brain damage develops in the hours and days ...

When a person suffers a stroke, physicians must restore blood flow to the brain as quickly as possible to save their life. But, ironically, that life-saving rush of blood can also trigger a second ...

New nanomaterial passes the blood-brain barrier to reduce damaging inflammation after the most common form of stroke. When ...

Microvascular ischemic disease describes conditions that affect the small blood vessels in the brain. These conditions include stroke, cerebral hemorrhage, and dementia. Age, high blood pressure, and ...

AC, allyl chloride; AQP-4, aquaporin-4; BBB, blood-brain barrier; BC, baicalin; GD, gardenoside; GLU, glucose; I/R, cerebral ischemia reperfusion; LA, lactic acid ...

This new article publication from Acta Pharmaceutica Sinica B, discusses how the protein arginine methyltransferase PRMT1 ameliorates cerebral ischemia–reperfusion injury by suppressing RIPK1-mediated ...

Among people who had a rare type of bleeding stroke called an aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage, researchers found that recent marijuana users were more than twice as likely to develop a serious ...

Not all brain aneurysms require surgery. Some require no treatment at all, while it may be possible to treat other aneurysms with medications, lifestyle changes, or rehabilitative therapy. A brain ...

A cerebral aneurysm, also called a brain aneurysm, can form anywhere in the brain. They are most common in the arteries around the base of the skull. A small brain aneurysm may not cause symptoms. The ...