Topic: stroke

This symposium examines how connected research, shared data and lived experience can improve care after brain injury. It spans stroke, traumatic injury, concussion and rehabilitation, linking laboratory work with clinical services and policy. A patient-journey case study examines gaps from emergency retrieval through rehabilitation and long-term community care. Sessions explore data harmonisation, co-design, exercise-related cognition, peer support and translation into practice. Project showcases include AI-supported vocational training, virtual-reality rehabilitation, post-stroke stimulation,

Lead research on stroke mechanisms and treatment, including experimental work connecting diabetes, GLP-1-related pathways and cerebrovascular disease with clinical or epidemiological studies. The professorship combines scientific leadership, research development and teaching within Karolinska Institutet. This is a permanent, full-time appointment. The extended application period closes on 14 October 2026.

Funding for research addressing cardiovascular conditions affecting women and girls, including stroke. Eligible approaches span biomedical mechanisms, clinical investigation, health services, population health and data science. Awards begin from July 2027 and support three-year projects.

Arterial spin labeling (ASL) MRI has become a vital tool in clinical neuroimaging, enabling noninvasive assessment of cerebral perfusion across a range of conditions including stroke, vascular malformations, and brain tumors. With broader clinical adoption, its practical strengths — as well as important limitations — have become increasingly clear.

Atherosclerosis is the underlying cause of major cardiovascular events, including heart attack and stroke. The build-up of plaque in coronary arteries can be a major risk for events, but risk is significantly higher in patients with vulnerable rather than stable plaque. Diagnostic imaging of vulnerable plaque is extremely useful for both stratifying patient risk and for determining effectiveness of experimental intervention in reducing cardiovascular risk. In the preclinical setting, being able to distinguish between stable and vulnerable plaque development and pair this with biochemical measu

Every year around 100,000 people in the UK will have a stroke. Stroke is a leading cause of adult disability, and cerebrovascular disease more broadly is a major cause of dementia. Understanding these diseases – both acute and chronic manifestations of cerebrovascular disease – requires consideration not only of the brain itself, but also the blood vessels supplying it. Atherosclerosis – the hardening of arteries as we age – may predispose to stroke by triggering the formation of blood clots that block the blood supply to the brain, but also involves inflammation that may cause chronic damage

The human language system comprises a series of processing stages across multiple brain regions typically lateralized to the left cerebral hemisphere. In the event of stroke or other injury to these systems, neural circuits reorganize in an attempt to restore lost function. However, the neural processes and learned representations underlying language network reorganization remain unclear. Here, we present data from a first-of-its-kind human case study involving chronic intracortical recordings from the right cerebral hemisphere of a patient with non-fluent aphasia with severe left-hemispheric

Stem cell therapy has emerged as a promising strategy for treating stroke, but it still presents several challenges, such as the optimal administration route or safety concerns. In clinical practice, endovascular delivery of cells is preferred to intracerebral injection. However, circulating stem cells must cross the blood-brain barrier (BBB) and might get trapped in peripheral organs, resulting in an insufficient number of cells reaching the lesion. To optimize their migration across the BBB, we aimed to mimic immune cells as they extravasate into the brain parenchyma following injury. For in

Gut microbiome has strongly emerged as a pivotal factor in the pathogenesis of stroke via gut-brain axis. However, it remains uncertain whether interventions that modulate gut microbiome can constitute a potent strategy to improve stroke outcome. The present study was carried out to explore interventions that affect stroke outcome through gut-brain axis.Eligibility criteria was applied base on PICO to search and select studies. Appropriate MESH-terms were used as search terms to source for information from PubMed, Web of Science, Cochrane Library, Ebsco, and Scopus from 1st January 1990 to 31s

Stroke remains a leading cause of long-term disability, with effective therapies hampered by an incomplete understanding of brain recovery mechanisms. Emerging evidence indicates that the interactions between the brain extracellular matrix (ECM) and glial cells1 critically contribute to post-stroke neuroplasticity and can help promote stroke recovery.We investigated the role of perineuronal nets (PNNs), facet-like ECM layers surrounding fast-spiking interneurons, in neurological recovery following focal cerebral ischemia in mice. Using superresolution stimulated emission depletion (STED), stru