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May 1, 2025

Raising Stroke Awareness This May 2025

May is Stroke Awareness Month, a time dedicated to increasing public understanding of stroke prevention, recognizing the signs of stroke, and promoting timely treatment.
May 18, 2023

Stroke Treatment & Prevention

Jason Tarpley, MD, PhD, Director of the Stroke and Neurovascular Center at Pacific Neuroscience Institute (PNI) explains how to identify and treat stroke, and reviews lifestyle changes you can make today to lower your risk of stroke today.
May 3, 2023

May Is National Stroke Awareness Month

May is Stroke Awareness Month. Stroke is preventable. Identifying risk factors that contribute can help reduce the likelihood of having a stroke. Read more.
September 26, 2022

What Is the Difference Between Ischemic stroke and Hemorrhagic Stroke?

Sandra Narayanan, MD, Vascular Neurologist and Neurointerventional Surgeon at the Pacific Stroke and Neurovascular Center at Pacific Neuroscience Institute, explains the difference between hemorrhagic and ischemic stroke.
August 30, 2022

Social Isolation May Increase Stroke and Heart Attack Risk in Older Adults

Social isolation, characterized as infrequent interaction with others, may increase the risk of stroke and heart attack in older adults. Neurointerventional surgeon Sandra Narayanan of the Pacific Stroke and Neurovascular Center, explained.
August 16, 2022

Improving Stroke Diagnosis: PNI Stroke Team Presents Life-Saving Research

Director of the Pacific Stroke and Neurovascular Center, Jason Tarpley, MD, PhD, presented how AI-based gaze deviation detection could aid LVO diagnosis in NCCT at the Society of NeuroInterventional Surgery's (SNIS) 19th annual meeting in Toronto, 2022.
July 5, 2022

Stroke Survivor Leads Stroke Support Groups

Pacific Stroke and Neurovascular Center 's patient support group leader Dana Rivera celebrates her 13th year post-stroke and talks about her journey from devastation to success.
May 12, 2022

Celebrating EMS Week

Pacific Neuroscience Institute celebrated EMS week with events and training on advanced stroke knowledge and lifesaving care.
January 5, 2022

Drinking Coffee and Tea May Lower the Risk of Stroke and Dementia

A growing body of research suggests that foods containing flavonoids, powerful antioxidant chemicals found in coffee and tea, provide numerous brain-boosting benefits.
January 3, 2022

Joe’s Story: Dr. Langevin Allowed Me To Walk Again

When Joe was diagnosed with degenerative disc disease, he lost his ability to walk. After visiting several clinics with no luck, Joe discovered Dr. Jean-Philippe Langevin, who performed a lumbar microdiscectomy of the spine and restored his ability to walk.