A landmark study in Cell reveals that gut bacteria carrying the tnaA gene convert dietary tryptophan into indole, flipping a ...

Stroke survivors whose undamaged brain half showed an older brain age had worse language problems and tended to gain less from therapy.

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 ...

A Mendelian randomization study of 191 brain imaging phenotypes and 1,270 stroke patients finds genetic evidence that ...

Blocking the activity of ZFP384 can prolong the brain’s endogenous repair functions after stroke, report researchers in a collaborative study. They developed an antisense oligonucleotide-based therapy ...

Ischemic stroke can leave lasting neurological damage after the initial vascular event, with oxidative stress, ...

For millions of stroke survivors, recovery doesn’t end when they leave the hospital. While emergency treatments can save lives, the long road afterward often involves months or years of physical ...

Dr. Mohana Rao Patibandla explains how early neurorehabilitation improves recovery after stroke, brain surgery, spine surgery, and spinal cord injury. Saving the brain or spinal cord is only the first ...

An early-stage clinical trial has shown that deep brain stimulation (DBS) applied to the cerebellum may aid the recovery of upper limb function after stroke. Researchers studied 12 people with ...

A new study finds that Prozac can significantly improve recovery from stroke— the number one cause of adult disability and the third leading cause of death in the U.S. The randomized controlled trial ...