The initial signs of a stroke may be as subtle as a partly drooping face, a bit of weakness in a limb, perhaps some halting speech. Often, the person suffering a stroke does not know anything is wrong ...

Use of transcranial magnetic stimulation to the cerebellum promoted gait and balance recovery in stroke patients in a new study. "We showed a clear increase in walking ability and balance with this ...

The effects and risks of the use of intravenous thrombolysis between 4.5 and 24 hours after the onset of a posterior circulation ischemic stroke are not well studied. In a trial conducted in China, we ...

A new device that analyzes head and eye movements could revolutionize the diagnosis of vertebrobasilar strokes, a new study suggests. Lead author David E. Newman-Toker, MD, PhD, from Johns Hopkins ...

Chiari malformation, an anomaly of the posterior cranial fossa, also known as Arnold–Chiari malformation, was described in autopsies by Hans Chiari, an Austrian pathologist, in 1891. He defined four ...

Details of the search strategy appear in Appendix 1. In brief, we searched MEDLINE to identify English-language observational studies on the clinical features, diagnostic evaluation and differential ...

Montel Williams reveals for the first time that he suffered a cerebellar hemorrhagic stroke — a rare type of stroke that experts say can either kill or cause severe neurologic deficits in 50 percent ...

Vertebral Basilar Angiogram. (Left) lateral view; (Right) AP view. This study was performed by injecting contrast into the right vertebra artery, which is well opacified. There is also some retrograde ...

A 32 year-old woman developed the abrupt onset of a severe headache followed by a brief loss of consciousness. CT scan showed diffuse subarachnoid hemorrhage. On hospital day 7, she developed lethargy ...

To accurately assess and diagnose this patient’s condition, the clinician needs to consider the clinical picture, which is fairly non-specific but yet concerning, as well as the normal panel of ...