Stroke Research Today is a free monthly online journal that collates and summarizes the latest research about Stroke, including details on treatment, recovery, rehabilitation, signs, symptoms.

Volume 3 (2006), Issue 11 (November)

1. Effect of constraint-induced movement therapy on upper extremity function 3 to 9 months after stroke: the EXCITE randomized clinical trial.
   JAMA, 296(17): 2095-104. [Abstract] [Full-text]
2. Primary hemorrhagic stroke in children with sickle cell disease is associated with recent transfusion and use of corticosteroids.
   Pediatrics, 118(5): 1916-24. [Abstract] [Full-text]
3. A strategy for computer-assisted mental practice in stroke rehabilitation.
   Neurorehabil Neural Repair, 20(4): 503-7. [Abstract] [Full-text]
4. Predictive value of ischemic lesion volume assessed with magnetic resonance imaging for neurological deficits and functional outcome poststroke: A critical review of the literature.
   Neurorehabil Neural Repair, 20(4): 492-502. [Abstract] [Full-text]
5. Evolution of subjective visual vertical perturbation after stroke.
   Neurorehabil Neural Repair, 20(4): 484-91. [Abstract] [Full-text]
6. Bilateral training does not facilitate performance of copying tasks in poststroke hemiplegia.
   Neurorehabil Neural Repair, 20(4): 473-83. [Abstract] [Full-text]
7. The scale for contraversive pushing: A reliability and validity study.
   Neurorehabil Neural Repair, 20(4): 468-72. [Abstract] [Full-text]
8. A single injection of D-amphetamine facilitates improvements in motor training following a focal cortical infarct in squirrel monkeys.
   Neurorehabil Neural Repair, 20(4): 455-8. [Abstract] [Full-text]
9. Recovery of grasp versus reach in people with hemiparesis poststroke.
   Neurorehabil Neural Repair, 20(4): 444-54. [Abstract] [Full-text]
10. Cohort-specific trends in stroke mortality in seven European countries were related to infant mortality rates.
    J Clin Epidemiol, 59(12): 1295-302. [Abstract] [Full-text]
11. Disparities in stroke preventive care in general practice did not explain socioeconomic disparities in stroke.
    J Clin Epidemiol, 59(12): 1285-94. [Abstract] [Full-text]
12. Global and regional mortality from ischaemic heart disease and stroke attributable to higher-than-optimum blood glucose concentration: comparative risk assessment.
    Lancet, 368(9548): 1651-9. [Abstract] [Full-text]
13. Serial magnetic resonance imaging in a rat pup filament stroke model.
    Exp Neurol, 202(2): 294-301. [Abstract] [Full-text]
14. A randomized, placebo-controlled study of donepezil in poststroke aphasia.
    Neurology, 67(9): 1687-9. [Abstract] [Full-text]
15. Clinical and radiographic features of peritumoral infarction following resection of glioblastoma.
    Neurology, 67(9): 1668-70. [Abstract] [Full-text]
16. Predicting abnormal coagulation in ischemic stroke: reducing delay in rt-PA use.
    Neurology, 67(9): 1665-7. [Abstract] [Full-text]
17. Unrecognized myocardial infarction and the risk of stroke: the Rotterdam Study.
    Neurology, 67(9): 1635-9. [Abstract] [Full-text]
18. African American women have poor long-term survival following ischemic stroke.
    Neurology, 67(9): 1623-9. [Abstract] [Full-text]
19. Clinical and radiological recurrence after childhood arterial ischemic stroke.
    Circulation, 114(20): 2170-7. [Abstract] [Full-text]
20. Effects of apolipoprotein E genotype on outcome after ischaemic stroke, intracerebral haemorrhage and subarachnoid haemorrhage.
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry, 77(12): 1329-35. [Abstract] [Full-text]
21. Differences in circadian variation of cerebral infarction, intracerebral haemorrhage and subarachnoid haemorrhage by situation at onset.
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry, 77(12): 1345-9. [Abstract] [Full-text]
22. Ischaemic stroke with malignancy may often be caused by paradoxical embolism.
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry, 77(12): 1336-9. [Abstract] [Full-text]
23. Acute physiological derangement is associated with early radiographic cerebral infarction after subarachnoid haemorrhage.
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry, 77(12): 1340-4. [Abstract] [Full-text]
24. Recurrent hemiplegia associated with cerebral vasculopathy following third trimester maternal herpes zoster infection.
    Dev Med Child Neurol, 48(12): 991-3. [Abstract] [Full-text]
25. Diagnostic pitfalls in paediatric ischaemic stroke.
    Dev Med Child Neurol, 48(12): 985-90. [Abstract] [Full-text]
26. Effects of small ischemic lesions in the primary motor cortex on neurophysiological organization in ventral premotor cortex.
    J Neurophysiol, 96(6): 3506-11. [Abstract] [Full-text]
27. Progression of middle cerebral artery susceptibility sign on T2*-weighted images: its effect on recanalization and clinical outcome after thrombolysis.
    AJR Am J Roentgenol, 187(6): W650-7. [Abstract] [Full-text]
28. Late-occurring stroke among long-term survivors of childhood leukemia and brain tumors: a report from the Childhood Cancer Survivor Study.
    J Clin Oncol, 24(33): 5277-82. [Abstract] [Full-text]
29. Adenosine kinase, epilepsy and stroke: mechanisms and therapies.
    Trends Pharmacol Sci, 27(12): 652-8. [Abstract] [Full-text]
30. Parallel stages of learning and recovery of skilled reaching after motor cortex stroke: "oppositions" organize normal and compensatory movements.
    Behav Brain Res, 175(2): 249-62. [Abstract] [Full-text]
31. Edema of the paretic hand in elderly post-stroke nursing patients.
    Arch Gerontol Geriatr, 44(1): 37-42. [Abstract] [Full-text]
32. Hybrid power-assisted functional electrical stimulation to improve hemiparetic upper-extremity function.
    Am J Phys Med Rehabil, 85(12): 977-85. [Abstract] [Full-text]
33. Estimation of 10-year risk of fatal and nonfatal ischemic cardiovascular diseases in Chinese adults.
    Circulation, 114(21): 2217-25. [Abstract] [Full-text]
34. Toward benchmarks for stroke rehabilitation in Ontario, Canada.
    Am J Phys Med Rehabil, 85(12): 971-6. [Abstract] [Full-text]
35. Prognostic factors of activity limitation and discharge destination after stroke rehabilitation.
    Am J Phys Med Rehabil, 85(12): 963-70. [Abstract] [Full-text]
36. Gene therapy using SOD1 protects striatal neurons from experimental stroke.
    Neurosci Lett, 411(1): 32-6. [Abstract] [Full-text]
37. Therapy for early reperfusion after stroke.
    Nat Clin Pract Cardiovasc Med, 3(12): 656-63. [Abstract] [Full-text]
38. Bench to bedside: the quest for quality in experimental stroke research.
    J Cereb Blood Flow Metab, 26(12): 1465-78. [Abstract] [Full-text]
39. Redirecting patients to improve stroke outcomes: implications of a volume-based approach in one urban market.
    Med Care, 44(12): 1129-36. [Abstract] [Full-text]
40. Intravenous ancrod for acute ischaemic stroke in the European Stroke Treatment with Ancrod Trial: a randomised controlled trial.
    Lancet, 368(9550): 1871-8. [Abstract] [Full-text]
41. Prediction of thrombolytic efficacy in acute ischemic stroke using thin-section noncontrast CT.
    Neurology, 67(10): 1846-8. [Abstract] [Full-text]
42. Left size distortion (hyperschematia) after right brain damage.
    Neurology, 67(10): 1801-8. [Abstract] [Full-text]
43. Can pulse oximetry or a bedside swallowing assessment be used to detect aspiration after stroke?
    Stroke, 37(12): 2984-8. [Abstract] [Full-text]
44. An expedited code stroke protocol is feasible and safe.
    Stroke, 37(12): 2935-9. [Abstract] [Full-text]
45. Is sex a prognostic factor in stroke rehabilitation? A matched comparison.
    Stroke, 37(12): 2989-94. [Abstract] [Full-text]
46. Granulocyte-colony-stimulating factor mobilizes bone marrow stem cells in patients with subacute ischemic stroke: the Stem cell Trial of recovery EnhanceMent after Stroke (STEMS) pilot randomized, controlled trial (ISRCTN 16784092).
    Stroke, 37(12): 2979-83. [Abstract] [Full-text]
47. Can multivariable risk-benefit profiling be used to select treatment-favorable patients for thrombolysis in stroke in the 3- to 6-hour time window?
    Stroke, 37(12): 2963-9. [Abstract] [Full-text]
48. The stroke-thrombolytic predictive instrument: a predictive instrument for intravenous thrombolysis in acute ischemic stroke.
    Stroke, 37(12): 2957-62. [Abstract] [Full-text]
49. Additional outcomes and subgroup analyses of NXY-059 for acute ischemic stroke in the SAINT I trial.
    Stroke, 37(12): 2970-8. [Abstract] [Full-text]
50. Impact of carotid endarterectomy on medical secondary prevention after a stroke or a transient ischemic attack: results from the Reduction of Atherothrombosis for Continued Health (REACH) registry.
    Stroke, 37(12): 2880-5. [Abstract] [Full-text]
51. Long-term effect of intra-arterial thrombolysis in stroke.
    Stroke, 37(12): 3002-7. [Abstract] [Full-text]
52. Mechanical thrombectomy for acute ischemic stroke: thrombus-device interaction, efficiency, and complications in vivo.
    Stroke, 37(12): 3019-24. [Abstract] [Full-text]
53. Randomized controlled trial to evaluate the effect of surface neuromuscular electrical stimulation to the shoulder after acute stroke.
    Stroke, 37(12): 2995-3001. [Abstract] [Full-text]
54. Validation of the ABCD score in identifying individuals at high early risk of stroke after a transient ischemic attack: a hospital-based case series study.
    Stroke, 37(12): 2892-7. [Abstract] [Full-text]
55. Metabolic risk factors for stroke and transient ischemic attacks in middle-aged men: a community-based study with long-term follow-up.
    Stroke, 37(12): 2898-903. [Abstract] [Full-text]
56. Neuronal differentiation of transplanted embryonic stem cell-derived precursors in stroke lesions of adult rats.
    Brain, 129: 3238-48. [Abstract] [Full-text]
57. Decreased risk of stroke among 10-year survivors of breast cancer.
    J Clin Oncol, 24(34): 5388-94. [Abstract] [Full-text]

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