White matter integrity in the right hemisphere may help to predict speech fluency recovery following a stroke, research indicates. The results show that post-stroke patients with aphasia who performed ...

Many people refer to a stroke as the brain’s equivalent of a heart attack. A stroke occurs when there’s an interruption or ...

The University of Washington (UW) is offering new hope for people who have suffered a stroke by implanting a device directly in the brain. The device electrically stimulates areas during therapy in ...

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 ...

To maximize stroke recovery, researchers may want to focus more on ways to support the side of the brain where the injury didn't occur, scientists report. "Most studies focus on the stroke area and ...

Each year, thousands of stroke survivors are left with hemianopia, a condition that causes loss of half of their visual field (the “vertical midline”). Hemianopia severely affects daily activities ...

Months after UW Medicine neurosurgeons implanted a first-of-its-kind brain stimulation device in a stroke patient, doctors are seeing something they weren't sure was possible: meaningful return of ...