Your experience as a patient
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Our Patient & Public Involvement (PPI) training day
Monday 26 June 2017
Today, we held an exciting day of training for our early-career researchers about Patient and Public Involvement (PPI) in stroke research. The day was chaired by Laura Piercy, our Research Engagement Officer.
Robots to help treat stroke patients
Monday 30 June 2014
A major new national research programme using robot assisted training to help NHS stroke patients regain movement in their affected arm, has been officially launched in the North East.
Could more patients benefit from thrombectomy?
Tuesday 6 March 2018
TENSION is a new international study funded by the EU, and hoping to extend the benefits of mechanical thrombectomy to more stroke patients.
National Clinical Guideline for Stroke (Patient version)
Resource type: Information leaflet
Publication type: Stroke information
This book tells you what care should be provided after stroke. It is written for people with stroke and their carers. It's a short, easy to read version of the detailed National Clinical Guideline for Stroke (5th edition), published by The Royal College of Physicians and commended for a BMA patient information award.
Testing memory & thinking problems in stroke patients
Monday 4 January 2016
Questionnaires are commonly used to diagnose dementia and cognitive impairment in stroke patients, and a new review of the research into their use has been published in the journal, Stroke.
Patient and Public Involvement in research
If you’re looking for people affected by stroke to be involved in your research, the Stroke Association can help.
Development of new magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) techniques to image vessel patterns and blood flow in patients with disease of their vertebral arteries
Development of new magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) techniques to image vessel patterns and blood flow in patients with disease of their vertebral arteries
Getting the most from brain MRI scans: new and better measures of brain health in stroke
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans provide lots of data on the health of a person’s brain, not all of which is routinely used in clinical practice. This project will continue the development of tools to assess the brain scans of people with stroke.
How to improve trials of new treatments for stroke and dementia
TSA LECT 2015/04 Dr Fergus Doubal, University of Edinburgh