Neurology
UConn Health Minute: Understanding Brain Tumors
Cancerous or malignant, brain tumors tend to grow quickly and disrupt the way your body works, and this can be life-threatening. As UConn Health neuro-oncologist Dr. Kevin Becker explains, interdisciplinary collaboration and a patient-centered approach to care is key in identifying brain and spine tumors early and providing the most advanced treatments available.
I Think of Strokes Happening in Older People, Not Me
A sunny, hot day on the golf course in July, Karen Walsh’s life as she knew it changed. Having the greatest round ever and working toward a new personal best, she was getting ready to drive the ball when she had a sudden onset of dizziness. Thinking she was just dehydrated, she drank liquids but […]
Gold Level Heart Attack and Stroke Care at UConn Health
The American Heart Association (AHA) has once again bestowed gold level honors upon UConn John Dempsey Hospital for its continued excellence in heart attack and stroke care. In fact, 2020 marks the sixth straight year that the hospital has received the highest gold honors for heart attack care and the fourth year in a row for stroke care.
Multidisciplinary, Compassionate Care for MS Patients
In the short time since he arrived at UConn Health in summer 2019 to lead the multiple sclerosis (MS) and neuroimmunology program, Dr. Jaime Imitola has begun transforming the way that MS care is delivered.
Crisis Averted: Stopping Strokes
UConn Health's nationally-renowned stroke treatment center is always looking for new ways to help patients.
Bringing COVID-19 Testing to the Community
UConn Health Multiple Sclerosis Center leads an effort to test vulnerable patients for COVID-19.
A Stroke Patient’s Meaningful Return to Running 13.1 Miles
May is National Stroke Awareness Month. Read the inspiring patient success story of a UConn Health stroke survivor patient named Kevin Verge. He will be running the virtual UConn Health Half Marathon June 4-7.