Latest Neuroscience Articles

• My Father’s Code October 24, 2026
  An oncology fellow is used to having code-status discussions with patients and families, but when her father is downed by an ocean wave, she suddenly sees the DNR question from a new perspective.
  Netana Markovitz
• Trial of Endovascular Therapy for Mild Stroke with Large-Vessel Occlusion October 23, 2026
  Among patients with mild stroke from large-vessel occlusion, 69.4% had a favorable functional outcome at 90 days with endovascular therapy plus medical management, as compared with 50.0% with medical management alone.
  Jianmin Liu, Tingyu Yi, Pengfei Xing, Meihua Wu, Liyong Zhang, Tuanyuan Zheng, Mingzhu Huang, Yanmin Wu, Hao Wang, Guoyong Zeng, Jinglun Li, Ya Peng, Yueqi Zhu, Yibin Fang, Xueli Cai, Jun Luo, Yuanbiao Lei, Hao Qin, Pu Fang, Yamei Tang, Guangxiong Yuan, En Wang, Xiongjun He, Xiongwei Lu, Zhentao Li, Bo Lei, Hua Cao, Xinguang Yang, Chenghua Xu, Meixia Shang, Craig S. Anderson, Zeguang Ren, Pengfei Yang, Wenhuo Chen, the MILD-MT Investigators*
• Expanding the Evidence and Indications for Thrombectomy in Ischemic Stroke October 23, 2026
  In 2015, pivotal randomized, controlled trials established the benefit of endovascular treatment for acute ischemic stroke due to a large-vessel occlusion.1,2 The trials showed a major clinical benefit in patients presenting with relatively standard stroke features: large-vessel occlusion in the anterior circulation; relevant clinical neurologic deficit; short time...
  Gaultier Marnat