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Integrated stroke care system results in fewer deaths, discharges to long-term care facilities
(Canadian Medical Association Journal) An integrated system of stroke care delivery in Ontario, Canada, has resulted in fewer deaths from stroke and fewer discharges to long-term care facilities because of better access to optimal stroke care, according to a study published in Canadian Medical Association Journal.
Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science - May 27, 2013 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news
What impacts whether African Americans call 9-1-1 immediately for stroke symptoms?
(University of Michigan Health System) African-Americans know the signs of stroke, but concerns about medical cost, ambulance response time and unfamiliarity with the need for prompt hospital care impacted whether they called 9-1-1 immediately.
Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science - May 14, 2013 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news
Bix of Sanders-Brown receives NIH funding for stroke research
(University of Kentucky) The new funding from the NIH will enable Bix and his team to investigate the effects of a newly identified stroke treatment on brain tissue regeneration, to investigate factors influencing generation and survival of post-stroke generated neurons, and to investigate novel mechanisms in neuritogenesis and neurite extension. The ultimate aim of this work is to develop a novel stroke therapy for humans.
Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science - May 13, 2013 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news
NIH awards $40 million in grants to reduce stroke disparities in the US
(NIH/National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke) Four research centers will develop high-impact culturally tailored interventions aimed at lowering stroke risk among racial and ethnic minorities in the United States. Together the centers are expected to receive $40 million in funding over five years, contingent on the availability of funds from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, part of the National Institutes of Health.
Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science - May 1, 2013 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news
Study: Teen years may be critical in later stroke risk
(American Academy of Neurology) The teenage years may be a key period of vulnerability related to living in the "stroke belt" when it comes to future stroke risk, according to a new study published in the April 24, 2013, online issue of Neurology, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology.
Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science - April 24, 2013 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news
Shift of language function to right hemisphere impedes post-stroke aphasia recovery
(IOS Press) In a study designed to differentiate why some stroke patients recover from aphasia and others do not, investigators have found that a compensatory reorganization of language function to right hemispheric brain regions bodes poorly for language recovery. Patients who recovered from aphasia showed a return to normal left-hemispheric language activation patterns. These results, which may open up new rehabilitation strategies, are available in the current issue of Restorative Neurology and Neuroscience.
Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science - April 4, 2013 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news
Tests to predict heart problems may be more useful predictor of memory loss than dementia tests
(American Academy of Neurology) Risk prediction tools that estimate future risk of heart disease and stroke may be more useful predictors of future decline in cognitive abilities, or memory and thinking, than a dementia risk score, according to a new study published in the April 2, 2013, print issue of Neurology®, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology.
Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science - April 1, 2013 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news
Surgical menopause may prime brain for stroke, Alzheimer's
(Medical College of Georgia at Georgia Regents University) Removing the ovaries before menopause, appears to leave more of the brain vulnerable to stroke and increase the risk of Alzheimer's disease, researchers report.
Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science - March 28, 2013 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news
Scientists awarded special collaborative grant to develop anti-addiction medication
(Scripps Research Institute) As part of an unprecedented national effort to develop new drugs to treat neurological disorders, scientists from the Florida campus of the Scripps Research Institute have been awarded an innovative grant from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke to help people break their addiction to nicotine.
Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science - March 27, 2013 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news
Nottingham leads £2.6m international clinical trial into new stroke treatment
(University of Nottingham) Scientists in Nottingham, UK, are leading an international study to investigate the effectiveness of a new treatment on a devastating type of stroke.
Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science - March 18, 2013 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news
Kessler Foundation researchers share findings in rehabilitation research at AAN meeting in San Diego
(Kessler Foundation) Kessler Foundation scientists and their colleagues will discuss their progress in rehabilitation research in multiple sclerosis and stroke at the upcoming 65th Annual American Academy of Neurology Conference at the San Diego Convention Center in San Diego, CA, March 16 - 23.
Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science - March 15, 2013 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news
Stroke risk in elderly treated with antipsychotics is newly linked to specific drug actions
(Elsevier) Antipsychotic administration in the elderly is associated with an increased risk for cerebrovascular accident, more commonly known as stroke; a new study published in Biological Psychiatry provides additional insight into this important relationship.
Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science - March 11, 2013 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news
Kessler researchers link left-sided brain injury with greater risk for hospital-acquired infections
(Kessler Foundation) The March 2013 issue of Archives of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation features an article by Kessler researchers Pasquale Frisina, PhD, Ann Kutlik, BA, and A.M. Barrett, MD. Left-sided brain injury associated with more hospital-acquired infections during inpatient rehabilitation has implications for further research into brain-mediated immune defenses, infection control practices and cognitive rehabilitation strategies to improve outcomes after stroke and traumatic brain injury.
Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science - February 28, 2013 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news
Teaching the brain to speak again
(Northwestern University) "Use it or lose it," says stroke and brain damage researcher Cynthia Thompson, who has played a key role in demonstrating the brain's plasticity. On Feb. 16, she presents her groundbreaking research that offers hope to chronic sufferers of aphasia (a disorder affecting one million Americans). "Language training focused on principles of normal language processing stimulates the recovery of neural networks that support language even 10 or more years post-stroke," she says.
Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science - February 16, 2013 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news
NIH funds research to identify Parkinson's biomarkers
(Emory Health Sciences) The National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, part of the National Institutes of Health, awarded a three-year, $900,000 grant to the Center for Biomedical Imaging Statistics at Emory's Rollins School of Public Health. The grant will fund the center's biomarker research in Parkinson's disease to identify non-invasive imaging measures that can detect changes in brain function and biochemistry.
Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science - February 14, 2013 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news
