The day she had a stroke, Sonia Olea Coontz, a 31-year-old from Long Beach, California, was getting ready to start a new career as a dog trainer. She had just wrapped up a week of training, and ...

Striking Effects. In the new study, Paz and her collaborators tested a stem cell therapy under development by SanBio. One ...

Every 40 seconds, someone in the United States has a stroke. For survivors of the most common type of stroke, called an ischemic stroke, only about 5 percent fully recover.

Nine out of 12 post-stroke rehabilitation patients at the Cleveland Clinic showed improvement from the deep brain stimulation (DBS) treatment, according to a Cleveland Clinic press release.

The brain stem controls several vital body functions, such as heart rate, blood pressure, and breathing. A blockage or bleed in the brain stem can cause a brain stem stroke and impact a person’s ...

Groundbreaking AI implants help stroke victim 'talk' for first time in nearly two decades Johnson has remained in a paralytic state for 18 years after suffering a tragic brain stem stroke ...

New research from the Cleveland Clinic has shown that stroke victims who have struggled to recover can benefit from a procedure known as deep brain stimulation when combined with physical therapy.

When I was 26, out of the blue, I suffered a massive brain stem stroke caused by an arteriovenous malformation, or AVM, a rare congenital tangle of blood vessels of which I had no warning or ...

The Brain Stem Stroke is when people are in a “locked-in” state, where people typically are not able to speak or move below the neck.

"Time is brain" is the rallying cry for health care teams treating stroke victims. It is not coincidence that we use the acronym FAST, which stands for Face drooping, Arm/leg weakness, Speech ...

Stem cell therapy has been shown to restore normal brain activity patterns after ischemic stroke, even when administered one month post-stroke. This therapy reverses brain hyperexcitability, a ...