The director of Texas Health Plano's stroke program talks recently added technology to help patients regain their ability to drive.

Stroke recovery represents one of the most challenging yet hopeful journeys in medicine. While the brain damage from a stroke cannot be reversed, the remarkable ability of the human brain to rewire ...

Imagine your brain as a bustling city with millions of interconnected highways carrying information at lightning speed. Now picture what happens when a major earthquake hits, destroying some of those ...

Trudy Coleman, 73, of Kingston, center, said her recovery from a stroke has been greatly aided by sessions with her occupational therapist at Allied Services, Lori Ackerman, left, as well as the ...

How Does the Brain Recover After Stroke? Like any other organ or tissue in the human body, the brain is primed to heal and has mechanisms of healing. However, given the complex organization of the ...

HOUSTON, Texas — Structured physical activity can improve brain function after stroke, a meta-analytic review of relevant studies shows. "We found that a program as short as 12 weeks is effective at ...

For people who have had a stroke, it is unclear whether vagus nerve stimulation (VNS) paired with rehabilitation is better than rehabilitation alone for improving shoulder, arm, forearm, wrist, and ...

Researchers at The University of Manchester have found that tracking changes in a protein linked to inflammation (interleukin ...

In animal studies, rodents had their middle cerebral artery occluded, a standard stroke model in animals. After stroke onset, DMT was administered intraperitoneally (into the abdominal cavity), ...

On Sunday, 35-year-old Biersan Gomez reunited with the first responders and medical teams who helped save his life after he suffered a stroke while teaching a welding class at Corporate Landing Middle ...