Digital neurology: Personalizing diagnosis and treatment

The complexity and relatively inaccessibility of the nervous system present unique challenges to diagnosis and treatment of neurological disorders. Advances in computing power and biomedical informatics are benefiting cerebrovascular disorders. The need for rapid diagnosis given is hindered as clinical signs may be non-specific. Here we present several computational advances in brain imaging that improve detection of early stroke and assessment of viable tissue. Digital advances extend to the post-stroke care setting, finding individual differences in brain responses to the emerging field of electrical brain stimulation. More rapid diagnosis and individualizing rehabilitation paradigms hold great promise in improving stroke outcomes.