It's widely agreed that the sooner a stroke patient receives help, the better their chances of survival, and the better their recovery. Graham McClelland has seen how strokes impact people in the most acute sense of the word. As a paramedic for the North East ambulance service, he dealt with stroke patients on the frontline. Now, he's trying to understand and improve the care people first receive when they’ve had a stroke.

Researchers have identified the specific type of immune cell that causes brain inflammation in herpes simplex virus (HSV) encephalitis, a condition widely known as the cold sore virus, which causes inflammation and swelling of the brain.

Blood pressure monitors should be handed out on prescription to slash the number of people who die or are left with disabilities from strokes and heart attacks, a medical charity has said.

There are still many steps to be made by government to help drive improvements within stroke care, according to Chris Bryant, MP for Rhondda and chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) for Acquired Brain Injury.

As memories of the UK’s national lockdown start to fade, not only are there many lingering impacts on people, businesses and the economy, but government guidance is becoming increasingly difficult to follow.

In a new study, neuroscientists have found that raised blood pressure and diabetes in mid-life alter brain structure to slow thinking speed and memory.

A study has found that working memory training increases neural efficiency in Parkinson’s disease.