A stroke can damage your brain so that it no longer receives information from one side of your body. If this happens, you may not be aware of anything on one side, usually the side where you’ve lost movement (your affected side). This is called neglect or inattention.
Can training memory and attention on a home computer-task reduce spatial awareness problems after stroke?
More than 350,000 people in the UK have aphasia, a communication disability which can affect their ability to understand, speak, read, write and use numbers.
This Stroke Awareness Month, May 2022, we're launching our 'Stroke Research Means Everything' campaign to raise awareness of the chronic lack of funding available for stroke research.
Spatial neglect is caused when damage to the brain after stroke means that it no longer received information about one side of the body and/or world. Stroke survivors with spatial neglect might not be aware of anything happening on one side of their body. This research will investigate a computer based version of a new treatment for spatial neglect after stroke.
Stroke is a global epidemic, in the UK alone someone will have a stroke every 3 and a half minutes.
Thank you for your interest in having one of our volunteers deliver a presentation at your online session. Our talk covers information about stroke, the FAST test, and how to prevent and take action on stroke.
On Wednesday 24th November, a Stroke Awareness Event was held at the University of Oxford, with the aim of raising awareness about stroke, stroke services and stroke research.
The findings of this research could help provide stroke survivors and their relatives with more accurate information about what impacts they can expect over time, and will help doctors and therapists identify which patients with visual neglect will benefit the most from new treatments.
Raise awareness of stroke and fundraise by volunteering to become a Stroke Ambassador or an Events Fundraiser.