Stroke

The following slides discuss strokes: the role of job stress and the stress doctors feel when treating cryptogenic strokes.

How does postmenopausal hormone therapy affect cardiac and stroke mortality?

We know working long hours is bad for our health, but which risk is greater, coronary heart disease or stroke?

Our blogger discusses a possible resolution to this much-debated topic.

About one-third of stroke patients have significant cognitive impairment within several months of the event, but what is their status in the long term?

Neurologists will need to improve documentation for several common diagnoses to make a successful ICD-10 transition. Here are six helpful tips.

Learn about virtual reality systems and a functional therapy approach designed to promote quicker stroke recovery.

Learn about an app designed to help paralyzed patients, a system developed to provide head impact data, and a new use for an antiepileptic drug.

To stent or not to stent? We present 3 studies with opposing responses to this question.

Worse strokes are more likely to occur in patients who are resistant to aspirin. Better ways to identify those patients are needed.

Can the EEG predict neurological outcomes in post-anoxic encephalopathy from out-of-hospital cardiac arrest? What effect does TIA have on stroke risk in women migraineurs? What's the relationship between MS and vitamin D levels in minority populations?

Some patients who take aspirin have the potential for larger, more severe strokes. Highlights of the latest news about stroke are presented in this slide show.

Noninvasive measurements of cerebral hemodynamics and oxygenation can have a significant impact on the assessment of cerebrovascular conditions and can monitor the effects of clinical procedures on brain circulation.

These agents lower cholesterol and prevent cardiovascular disease, but they may actually increase the risk of Parkinson disease. Caution advised.

Minimally invasive surgery to remove clots from the brain and other cutting-edge stroke news for neurologists highlighted the research and clinical program at the International Stroke Conference.

Inquiring about memory in older persons during routine clinical examination may identify persons who might be at higher risk for stroke.

The 1-leg standing test is an easy way to determine if a patient has early signs of being at risk for a stroke and cognitive impairment and whether additional evaluation is needed,

Recovery from a paralyzed limb may be enhanced by a combination of these elements.

The use of a stroke emergency mobile unit speeds thrombolysis and thus improves short-term outcomes, with no risk to patients’ safety.

The latest scientific developments about the brain and how it works were presented this week at the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience. Potential new treatments were identified.

Here: 5 new things to know about stroke -- its link with perioperative A-fib; the danger of cocaine; rehab possibilities with an Alzheimer drug; reducing stroke risk with potassium; and a potential screen for occult A-fib after cryptogenic stroke.

Serum testing for NMDAR and other autoantibodies is fraught with pitfalls, and careful clinical consideration is important.

The chances of stroke and ischemic stroke were reduced in women who consumed the most potassium in this study. The differences were greater in those who did not have hypertension.