Stroke

Stroke

Illustration of a person walking inside a brain silhouette, overlaid on a close-up of closed eyes.
Locked inside their minds, thousands await a cure. Neuroscientist Daniel Toker is racing to find it.
A woman with grey hair, wearing a colorful sweater and purple gloves, holds a human brain.
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At age 37, neuroanatomist Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor suffered a stroke that would take her eight years to fully recover from. This is how it changed her understanding of the brain.
Unlikely Collaborators
A woman in a wheelchair looking at a computer screen.
The brain implant lets her talk four times faster than the previous record.
a glass of red liquid sitting on top of a table.
Is blood the key to anti-aging, or just another lucrative biotech opportunity?
A digital art image of a human made of small white blocks.
Brain-computer interfaces could enable people with locked-in syndrome and other conditions to "speak."
gabapentin
The common drug is called gabapentin, which is currently used to control seizures and manage nerve pain.
Bruce Willis has announced he is stepping away from acting.
post-stroke dementia
Researchers look to an FDA-approved drug ingredient that can "scoop-up" and store cholesterol and possibly stave off post-stroke dementia.
Three people standing on the inside of a clock illustrating an article on daylight saving time.
Daylight saving time was first implemented during the first world war to take advantage of longer daylight hours and save energy. While this made a difference when we heavily relied on coal […]