Introduction Cognitive impairment is a common consequence after stroke. Intermittent theta burst stimulation (iTBS) has emerged as a promising cognitive therapy. However, traditional iTBS typically ...

Every day, we speak thousands of words, without rehearsal or hesitation. We order coffee. We soothe a child. We describe a memory, tell a joke, argue, confess, comfort, persuade. To us, speech feels ...

A new study from UC San Francisco challenges the traditional view of how the brain strings sounds together to form words and orchestrates the movements to pronounce them. Speaking is one of the most ...

The term “ministroke” can be a bit of a head-scratcher: How can there be a tiny form of a full-blown medical emergency? Thanks to the misleading modifier, it’s often perceived as something you don’t ...

Gyrus Capital has held a final close on a €700 million single-asset continuation vehicle for Essential Pharma. Essential is a specialty pharma group focused on ensuring that patients have access to ...

Auditory corollary discharge in the human starts in the bottom, or ventral, part of the motor cortex, a subregion called the precentral gyrus (red), and then move down across its folds to a ...

Experts this week identified new risks and issued updated recommendations for preventing strokes, a leading cause of death and disability in the U.S. It's the first time in a decade that health ...

Introduction: This study aims to examine brain activity during different swallowing actions in patients with dysphagia caused by medullary infarction (MI) before and after treatment using blood oxygen ...

Tenecteplase is an effective thrombolytic agent for eligible patients with stroke who are treated within 4.5 hours after the onset of stroke. However, data regarding the effectiveness of tenecteplase ...

Renowned linguist and social critic Noam Chomsky suffered a stroke last June and is recovering in a hospital in his wife’s native country of Brazil. Chomsky’s absence from the public eye over the past ...

Share on Pinterest New research finds that fish oil supplements may increase heart disease and stroke risks in healthy people. Pranithan Chorruangsak/Getty Images A study has found that fish oil ...