Brain Health & Conditions

Michael Chen, MD, a professor of neurology, neurosurgery and radiology at Rush University Medical Center, discusses the ways Rush is efficiently diagnosing stroke, how it is differentiating actual cases of large vessel occlusion stroke with false positives and how Rush handles the benefits and challenges of using thrombectomy.

Neepa Patel, MD is a neurologist in the Rush University System for Health and the director for the Movement Disorder Interventional Program in the Department of Neurological Sciences. Her interests include improving the quality and delivery of care for patients receiving deep brain stimulation (DBS) and education to improve the utilization of new therapies in movement disorders.

Rima Dafer, MD, is a vascular neurologist and the director of the Comprehensive Outpatient Cerebrovascular Diseases Clinic at Rush University Medical Center. She has been a principal investigator on numerous clinical trials in acute stroke intervention and secondary stroke prevention. Her clinical interests center around stroke occurrence in young adults and the association of stroke and atrial fibrillation.

If you’re an older man, being a fraud victim could raise your blood pressure over time, RUSH researchers find

RUSH researchers find new evidence of link between ICU stays, dementia development

A Rush multiple sclerosis specialist explains why MS can be misdiagnosed

Researchers at RUSH hope new findings will mitigate and improve Parkinson’s symptoms and prevent new ones

Compound in strawberries associated with fewer tau tangles in brain, according to Rush researchers

Results highlight importance of exercise in treating the disease

Indiana woman moving, talking again after suffering rare, stroke-related paralysis