by MGH Institute of Health Professions Dr. Teresa Kimberley (left) works with a vagus nerve stimulation patient (center) and a grad assistant at the Brain Recovery Lab on the MGH Institute of Health Professions campus in Boston. Credit: John Shaw Results of a study co-authored by MGH Institute of Health Professions researcher Teresa Kimberley, Ph.D.,...
by From Mayo Clinic News Network Credit: CC0 Public Domain It’s National Stroke Awareness Month and one of the biggest misconceptions about stroke is that it only happens to the elderly. While age is one of the risk factors and your chance for a stroke increases with age, anyone can have a stroke. According to...
AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION DALLAS, March 8, 2021 – While most people think of strokes affecting the brain, they can also affect the eye. Central retinal artery occlusion (CRAO) is a rare form of acute ischemic stroke that occurs when blood flow is blocked to the main artery of the eye. It typically causes painless, immediate...
by Lund University Credit: CC0 Public Domain Researchers at Lund University in Sweden believe they have identified a gene variant that can cause cerebral small vessel disease and stroke. The study is published in Neurology Genetics. “The patients we have studied are from the same extended family, and several of them have been diagnosed with cerebral small vessel...
by Leigh MacMillan, Vanderbilt University Medical Center Lea Davis, PhD, left, Slavina Goleva and colleagues are using electronic health records to study the comorbidities associated with functional seizures. Credit: photo by Donn Jones In a large-scale study of electronic health records, Vanderbilt University Medical Center investigators have determined the prevalence of functional seizures and characterized comorbidities...
by Louisiana State University Credit: Louisiana State University Research conducted at LSU Health New Orleans Neuroscience Center of Excellence reports that a combination of an LSU Health-patented drug and selected DHA derivatives is more effective in protecting brain cells and increasing recovery after stroke than a single drug. The findings are published in Brain Circulation. Nicolas Bazan, MD,...
by Lynda De Widt, Mayo Clinic Researchers at Mayo Clinic in Florida and collaborators have found that a biomarker in the blood may determine the extent of brain injury from different types of strokes and predict prognosis in these patients. Their findings are reported in Science Translational Medicine. The blood biomarker is a protein known as neurofilament light...
By Rich Haridy November 03, 2020 A new study is one of the first to quantify the long-term inflammatory effects of specific foods lightsource/Depositphotos New research from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health has found diets higher in foods known to contribute to chronic inflammation can increase a person’s risk of cardiovascular disease...
AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION DALLAS, Nov. 2, 2020 — People who experience high blood pressure while sleeping are more likely to experience future cardiovascular disease especially heart failure, even when their daytime blood pressure is within normal ranges, according to new research published today in the American Heart Association’s flagship journal Circulation. Health care professionals typically use in-office and...
by American Academy of Neurology People who are given clot-busting drugs after a stroke may recover better if they also are given a therapy called remote ischemic postconditioning, according to a new study published in the October 7, 2020, online issue of Neurology, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology. Remote ischemic conditioning is when...
