Neither a placebo procedure nor two different doses of transcranial brain stimulation, which send electrical signals through the skull, improved mobility recovery in stroke survivors receiving ...

A 16-year-old lacrosse player woke up one morning and immediately knew that something was wrong. He had a bad headache and ...

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Pregnancy puts women at higher risk for stroke, especially in the last month before delivery and the first six weeks after ...

"I couldn't feel my left arm or leg," she recalls ... Trust which aims to help patients who suffer from arm weakness as a result of a stroke. About a third of stroke survivors are left with ...

DOCTOR, STROKE IS A LEADING CAUSE OF DEATH IN ... SO SLURRED SPEECH, YOU KNOW, A WEAKNESS OF ONE ARM OR ONE LEG. DIFFICULTY SPEAKING, LOSING YOUR BALANCE. DIZZINESS. THESE ARE THE SIGNS TO LOOK ...

Mild electrical brain stimulation did not further improve motor recovery in stroke survivors, according to late-breaking ...

Depending on the part of the brain affected, stroke may impair arm and/or leg movement and activities of daily life among survivors. Motor impairment (arm and/or leg weakness) is the most common ...