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Telestroke units improve stroke care in underserved areas
Using telecommunications to connect stroke experts to stroke patients in rural areas continued to improve and sustain stroke care, according to new research. With the tele-medical linked Stroke Units, patients in regional hospitals had around-the-clock access to consultations with vascular neurologists at stroke centers, including evaluation of brain imaging and patient examination via videoconferencing when needed.
Source: ScienceDaily Headlines - August 21, 2014 Category: Science Source Type: news

Moving with music for stroke rehabilitation: a sonification feasibility study
We present a novel musical sonification therapy especially designed to retrain gross‐motor functions. Four stroke patients were included in a clinical pre–post feasibility study and were trained with our sonification training. Patients’ upper‐extremity functions and their psychological states were assessed before and after training. The four patients were subdivided into two groups, with both groups receiving 9 days of musical sonification therapy (music group, MG) or a sham sonification training (control group, CG). The only difference between these training protocols was that, in the CG, no sound was played back....
Source: Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences - March 13, 2015 Category: Science Authors: Daniel S. Scholz, Sönke Rhode, Michael Großbach, Jens Rollnik, Eckart Altenmüller Tags: Original Article Source Type: research

State stroke legislation increases U.S. primary stroke centers
Primary stroke centers have increased dramatically in the last decade and state legislation to enable them is a major factor in potentially improving access to standard stroke care in the United States. State stroke legislation, urbanization, state economic output, and larger hospital size are four factors that increase the likelihood of a hospital becoming a certified primary stroke center.
Source: ScienceDaily Headlines - June 18, 2015 Category: Science Source Type: news

Predictors of a Good Outcome after Endovascular Stroke Treatment with Stent Retrievers.
Conclusion. To achieve a good outcome after EVT with stent retrievers, quick and complete recanalization and better strategies for patient selection are warranted. We need randomized trials to identify the significance of tight blood glucose control in clinical outcome during or after EVT. PMID: 26137591 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: The Scientific World Journal - July 3, 2015 Category: Science Tags: ScientificWorldJournal Source Type: research

Pre-stroke risk factors influence long-term future stroke, dementia risk
If you had heart disease risk factors, such as high blood pressure, before your first stoke, your risk of suffering subsequent strokes and dementia long after your initial stroke may be higher. Taking good care of your heart disease risk factors -- even if you have never experienced a stroke -- is not only important to prevent the first stroke, but it can go a long way to prevent a second stroke and dementia, say researchers.
Source: ScienceDaily Headlines - July 14, 2016 Category: Science Source Type: news

Nogo receptor blockade overcomes remyelination failure after white matter stroke and stimulates functional recovery in aged mice Neuroscience
White matter stroke is a distinct stroke subtype, accounting for up to 25% of stroke and constituting the second leading cause of dementia. The biology of possible tissue repair after white matter stroke has not been determined. In a mouse stroke model, white matter ischemia causes focal damage and adjacent...
Source: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - December 26, 2016 Category: Science Authors: Elif G. Sozmen, Shira Rosenzweig, Irene L. Llorente, David J. DiTullio, Michal Machnicki, Harry V. Vinters, Lief A. Havton, Roman J. Giger, Jason D. Hinman, S. Thomas Carmichael Tags: PNAS Plus Source Type: research

Unipolar stroke, electroosmotic pump carbon nanotube yarn muscles
Success in making artificial muscles that are faster and more powerful and that provide larger strokes would expand their applications. Electrochemical carbon nanotube yarn muscles are of special interest because of their relatively high energy conversion efficiencies. However, they are bipolar, meaning that they do not monotonically expand or contract over the available potential range. This limits muscle stroke and work capacity. Here, we describe unipolar stroke carbon nanotube yarn muscles in which muscle stroke changes between extreme potentials are additive and muscle stroke substantially increases with increasing po...
Source: ScienceNOW - January 28, 2021 Category: Science Authors: Chu, H., Hu, X., Wang, Z., Mu, J., Li, N., Zhou, X., Fang, S., Haines, C. S., Park, J. W., Qin, S., Yuan, N., Xu, J., Tawfick, S., Kim, H., Conlin, P., Cho, M., Cho, K., Oh, J., Nielsen, S., Alberto, K. A., Razal, J. M., Foroughi, J., Spinks, G. M., Kim, Tags: Materials Science reports Source Type: news

New stroke gene discovery could lead to tailored treatments
Scientists have identified a new genetic variant associated with stroke. By exploring the genetic variants linked with blood clotting -- a process that can lead to a stroke -- scientists have discovered a gene which is associated with large vessel and cardioembolic stroke but has no connection to small vessel stroke.
Source: ScienceDaily Headlines - February 1, 2013 Category: Science Source Type: news

Predictive factors of subjective sleep quality and insomnia complaint in patients with stroke: implications for clinical practice.
Abstract The complaints regarding sleep problems have not been well identified after a stroke. The aim of this study was to investigate the predictive factors of sleep quality and insomnia complaints in patients with stroke. A total of 70 subjects, 40 patients (57 ± 7 years) and 30 healthy controls (52 ± 6 years) assessed by the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) and the Sleep Habits Questionnaire took part in the study. The data were analyzed using the chi-square test, the Student's t-test and logistic regression analysis. On average, the patients showed poor sleep quality (patients: 6.3 ± 3.5; controls: 3....
Source: An Acad Bras Cienc - August 28, 2013 Category: Science Authors: Rocha PC, Barroso MT, Dantas AA, Melo LP, Campos TF Tags: An Acad Bras Cienc Source Type: research

Seasonal flu vaccine may cut stroke risk
Having the seasonal flu jab could reduce the risk of suffering a stroke by almost a quarter, researchers have found. Academics discovered that patients who had been vaccinated against influenza were 24% less likely to suffer a stroke in the same flu season. In 2010, the same research team showed a similar link between flu vaccination and reduced risk of heart attack. "Further experimental studies would be needed to better understand the relationship between flu vaccination and stroke risk. However, these findings reinforce the value of the U.K.'s national flu vaccination program with reduced risk of stroke appearing to be ...
Source: ScienceDaily Headlines - February 20, 2014 Category: Science Source Type: news

Over 80s often over-treated for stroke prevention
People in their 80s are often prescribed drugs to ward off a stroke when the risk of a stroke is not that high and the drugs have other side effects, suggest a new medical article. Statins and antihypertensive drugs were the most commonly prescribed cardiovascular drugs in the UK in 2006. And they are widely prescribed to patients in their 80s to ward off stroke. This is despite the fact that the research shows that, by this age, high blood pressure is not a key contributory risk factor, and high cholesterol has little effect on stroke risk, overall.
Source: ScienceDaily Headlines - February 27, 2014 Category: Science Source Type: news

Consistent blood pressure control may cut rate of second stroke in half
Stroke survivors who consistently control their blood pressure may reduce the likelihood of a second stroke by more than 50 percent. Less than a third of stroke survivors maintained consistent blood pressure control more than 75 percent of the time. Researchers determined results after controlling for age, sex and prior history of stroke, heart disease and other factors. Blood pressure was considered "controlled" at 140 mmHg over 90 mmHg or lower.
Source: ScienceDaily Headlines - March 27, 2014 Category: Science Source Type: news

Stroke recovery should include exercise prescription, experts say
Exercise prescriptions could significantly reduce disability and the risk of recurrent stroke in survivors who also may face other barriers such as fatigue and depression. The research suggests that stroke survivors should be prescribed exercise because they experience physical deconditioning and lead inactive lifestyles after stroke. That decreases their ability to perform daily living activities and increases their risk of having another stroke.
Source: ScienceDaily Headlines - May 20, 2014 Category: Science Source Type: news

Slowing brain functions linked to increased risk of stroke, death
Cognitive abilities such as memory and attention are not only important after a stroke but also before; according to researchers, declining memory and cognitive ability may increase the risk of stroke in adults over age 65. After stroke, cognitive function declined almost twice as fast. Stroke and cognitive decline increased the risk of death in older adults.
Source: ScienceDaily Headlines - August 7, 2014 Category: Science Source Type: news

Increased risk of stroke in people with cognitive impairment
People with cognitive impairment are significantly more likely to have a stroke, with a 39 percent increased risk, than people with normal cognitive function, according to a new study. Cognitive impairment and stroke are major contributors to disability, and stroke is the second leading cause of death world-wide. Although stroke is linked to the development and worsening of cognitive impairment, it is not known whether the reverse is true.
Source: ScienceDaily Headlines - August 25, 2014 Category: Science Source Type: news