Board certified health expert Dr. Marchelle Hofeldt shares insight with The Mirror about Emily Willis' condition as she is ...

A police officer who defied the odds to beat locked-in syndrome following a ... awarded an MBE for her work with stroke survivors after suffering a brain stem stroke nine years ago at the age ...

“A stroke?” I remember thinking. I couldn’t have had a stroke; that only happens to older people, or smokers, or people who ...

However, to account for this patient’s weakness, the pattern of the strokes would need to be multifocal, involving territories in both the cerebral cortex and the brain stem. The many foci ...

Central pain with dissociated thermoalgesic sensory loss is common in spinal and brainstem syndromes but not in cortical lesions ... pure thermoalgesic sensory loss contralateral to cortical stroke.

A pontine stroke occurs in the pons region of the brainstem—a small part of the brainstem responsible for breathing, heart rate, and blood pressure, among other essential, automatic functions. Pontine ...

The clinical syndrome produced by a stroke is determined ... The vertebrobasilar system supplies the brainstem and has branches to the cerebellum. The basilar artery typically bifurcates into ...

Doctors believed he was having stroke-like symptoms ... his disease caused locked-in syndrome, a rare and serious neurological disorder where damage to the brain stem leads to complete paralysis ...

The brainstem nuclei of the facial nerve are part of the ... National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke. Guillain-Barré Syndrome Fact Sheet. National Institute of Neurological Disorders ...

Clodagh Dunlop, from Magherafelt in Co Londonderry, had a brain stem stroke which initially left her with locked-in syndrome in April 2015. It left her completely paralysed and she was only able to ...