Neurorehabilitation News

Concussions and head impact exposure in college football players occurred at a “disproportionately higher” rate during the preseason vs. the regular season and most often happened in practices, not games.

Published results showed preexisting conditions, insufficient sleep or stress can mimic the ICD-10 symptom criteria for postconcussion syndrome among individuals with no recent concussion.

Patients with previous traumatic brain injury experienced significant improvement in motor functioning after implantation of mesenchymal stromal/stem cells, according to interim data from the STEMTRA phase 2 trial published in Neurology.

Machine learning models significantly outperformed standard models in predicting delayed cerebral ischemia and functional outcomes at 3 months after a subarachnoid hemorrhage, according to findings published in Neurology.

Literature on the neurological manifestations of COVID-19 continues to emerge, as does the medical community’s understanding of how COVID-19 impacts the course of underlying neurological conditions like MS and epilepsy.

Service members with combat-related concussions demonstrated an evolution, rather than a resolution, of symptoms during a 5-year period, including selective worsening of cognitive function, according to findings published in Neurology.

Neurologic manifestations occurred often in a large cohort of patients with COVID-19, regardless of respiratory disease severity, according to a retrospective analysis conducted in the Chicago area during the early months of the pandemic.

Perioperative stroke, a major complication of cardiac and thoracic aortic surgeries, has many possible origins, which can make prediction and prevention difficult, according to a new scientific statement.

Endovascular therapy for stroke due to anterior circulation large-vessel occlusion resulted in modestly better functional outcomes compared with medical therapy, even with presentation delay of more than 16 hours, researchers reported.

For every 1-minute delay in delivery of IV thrombolysis for acute ischemic stroke, the chance of survival decreased by 0.6%, researchers reported.