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 ...

Giving the clot-busting medication alteplase at the site of a blocked brain artery after blood clot removal may increase the ...

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 ...

New nanomaterial passes the blood-brain barrier to reduce damaging inflammation after the most common form of stroke. When someone experiences a stroke, doctors must quickly restore blood flow to the ...

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 ...

A machine learning model trained on EEG data from patients recovering from strokes helps predict how new patients will regain ...

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 ...

A stroke occurs when the flow of oxygen-carrying blood to part of the brain is interrupted by a blockage in a blood vessel or ...

While thrombolytic therapy remains one of the most effective strategies for stroke recovery, it is effective only for a short ...

Stroke survivors often face substantial and long-lasting problems with their arms. Both arms often decline together: When one ...

Wayne Feng demonstrates transcranial brain stimulation with constraint-induced movement therapy. Photo Credit: Ziping Huang Administering transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) along with ...