stroke, neuroscience

The organoids could one day be used to treat brain injuries in humans. 

Researchers found that shifted sleep/wake cycles in young rats result in increased functional deficits and mortality following stroke later in life.

A study finds that injuries to certain areas of the brain were associated with quitting smoking more quickly, easily, and with no cravings.

Researchers studying rats claim to have found a novel connection between damage on one side of the brain and problems with the posture or movement of limbs on the opposite side of the body.

When mice that had suffered a stroke were given blood from a healthy donor, they experienced less tissue and neurological damage.

A survey of hospitalized patients finds some suffer fatigue, ischemic stroke, delirium, and other symptoms.

Studies of the rosette-like structure can reveal clues to brain recovery after injury.

A new method helps neural stem cells form synaptic connections, thereby restoring lost brain function.

A new tool helps stem cells integrate with host neural circuitry after implantation in mice.

A small study reports that, among children who had left-hemisphere damage as newborns, the complementary region of the right hemisphere appears to compensate and protect language development.

In the introduction to the book, author Eliezer J. Sternberg illustrates what can happen when the brain’s processing centers are damaged.

What can neuroscientists learn from the masters and other artists?

Scientists present new recipes for directly converting glial cells to neurons in mouse brains.

See human brains age in week-by-week time lapse images that divulge the existence of tiny strokes that damage white matter.

Researchers unravel the biology of beauty and art.

Long-term stroke patients involved in a small-scale clinical trial of a neural stem-cell therapy show signs of recovery.

A University of Wisconsin neuroscientist is found guilty of falsifying Western blots as part of his stroke research, and has requested the retraction of two papers.