Did you know that a concussion is a considered a Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)? Or that every 9 seconds, someone in the U.S.

People are understandably concerned when health conditions or infectious diseases that were once well-managed start increasing again, but proper education and advancements in medicine mean we often ...

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 ...

Restoring blood flow after an ischemic stroke can trigger secondary brain injury, causing inflammation, neuronal death, and long-term disability that current treatments do not address. Researchers ...

A new blood marker reflects the extent of brain injury after an ischemic stroke and can predict patient outcomes months to years later. Strokes are a medical emergency, yet imaging can capture only ...

The blockage does not last long enough to cause permanent damage, so the symptoms disappear. Because people often feel normal again within minutes or hours, many ignore it. However, a mini-stroke is ...

The Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H), an agency within the Department of Health and Human Services, on Thursday unveiled the Functional Repair of Neocortical Tissue (FRONT) ...

Potential clinical uses included emergency stroke therapy, as an adjunct to rehabilitation, and as a neuroprotective agent, which may expand the treatment’s relevance to traumatic brain injury and ...

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 ...

April 19, 2007 — Spatial neglect, a common poststroke disability, has been linked to impaired communication between attention networks in the dorsal and ventral frontoparietal areas of the brain, a ...

People who lose their visual imagination after a stroke share damage to a single neural circuit. A new analysis maps these ...

On any given night, 60,000 people in Canada will go to sleep homeless. Research estimates that more than half of them have had a brain injury at one point in their lives, most of them being injured ...