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Published in the JNNP (Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry), new research suggests that a computer technique could help predict how well stroke survivors respond to language therapies for aphasia.

Amazing Brains: Research to Recovery. Previously known as our Keynote Lecture, our event took place on Wednesday, 15 May 2019, at the Science Museum in central London.

Cerebral small vessel disease (SVD) causes 1 in 5 strokes. People who have SVD also commonly have apathy - a loss of interest and initiative. In this project, Professor Hugh Markus brings together a multidisciplinary team to better understand what is happening in the brains of people with SVD who are experiencing apathy, and how it could be treated.

The Stroke Association is part of the Patient and Public Involvement Strategy, led by Dr Ava Easton on a grant worth £2.3 million to investigate the neurological and neuropsychiatric effects of COVID-19.

Our support for research has built a community of stroke researchers in the UK, and continues to change the lives of those affected by stroke.

Information about the physical effects of stroke, such as swallowing difficulties, continence problems, pain and headaches.

A new study which involved a genetic analysis of the blood types of nearly 17,000 people who’d had a stroke found that people with blood type A had an increased risk of an early stroke (between 18 and 60).

Information to help you understand your child’s stroke.

The CROMIS-2 study investigated whether signs of small brain bleeds on routine brain scans can help us understand which ischaemic stroke patients with atrial fibrillation are at increased risk of a bleed in the brain when on anticoagulant ‘blood thinning’ drugs.

On this page you can find information on common childhood stroke symptoms, diagnosis and treatments.