How damage spreads An injury to one brain region rarely stays contained to a single spot. The consequences ripple outward, creating a broader impact that depends on the scale of the injury, the ...

Strokes are a major cause of death and result in a drastic reduction in quality of life. Novel therapeutic strategies for patients suffering from stroke are thus required. Two possible strategies can ...

Stroke induces a spectrum of neurological deficits through focal or global cerebral ischaemia, triggering cell death, inflammation and disruption of neural networks. Neuroplasticity—the capacity of ...

When we talk about stroke recovery, most people think about medications, hospital care, and physiotherapy. What many don’t realise is that there’s something remarkable happening inside the brain ...

Cerebrovascular accidents, or strokes, are the most common cause of aphasia, a speech disorder of cerebral origin. People with aphasia have a reduced ability to understand or produce speech or written ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A longitudinal study quantifying neuroplasticity in the ipsilesional and contralesional human motor cortex ...

Mora Leeb was 9 months old when surgeons removed half her brain. Now 15, she plays soccer and tells jokes. Scientists say Mora is an extreme example of brain plasticity, the process that allows a ...

Neuroplasticity, or brain plasticity, can be defined as the ability of the nervous system to alter its activity in response to a stimulus by reorganizing its structure, function, and neuronal ...

Strokes are a major cause of death, and up to 50% of stroke patients experience lasting neurological deficits such as sensory loss, hemiparesis, hemianopsia and cognitive deficits. At present, only ...