Scientists have discovered that a common type of stroke may have a very different cause than doctors once thought. Instead of fatty plaque clogging arteries, the strongest link was found with enlarged ...

Scientists have redesigned a key piece of MRI hardware using metamaterials, allowing existing scanners to produce clearer ...

When a person first exhibits signs of having a stroke, the timing of treatment is critical to restore blood flow to the brain and support recovery. In addition to studying and implementing ways to ...

Noncontrast CT is commonly used to diagnose acute stroke because of its ability to detect acute hemorrhage, although it is less sensitive for early detection of ischemic stroke. The American Academy ...

The clinical syndrome produced by a stroke is determined by the artery or arteries that are occluded. Blood is supplied to the brain by two major sets of arteries, the anterior and posterior ...

Scientists are studying what pregnancy does to the brain and how it does so, shedding light on a long-understudied area of neuroscience.